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Owen Abroad
Personal blog · owen.org/blogeconomicspolitics
Owen Abroad is a personal blog at owen.org about economics and politics. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Owen Abroad's blog is linked for a pledge against taking part in all-male panels and for a post on solving world poverty. One commenter says the poverty posts contain lots of insights.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Current projects Moonshot: A Policymaker's Guide to Innovation After three decades of working on innovation, technology and public policy, from various perspectives, I am working on a book setting out a policymakers' guide to innovation: why does it matter, which innovations are priorities, and how
What Hacker News says?
If you're a man reading this, one of the tools you have at your disposal is to pledge not to be a part of a panel comprised of only men. It can help to prompt organisers to assess their biases. Here's one example of such a pledge you could take (either privately, or publicly): https://www.owen.org/pledge/
Comment linking /pledge/
on “Build on Redis Hackathon”Submitted Google and the Trolley Problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe can de the generation... (lots of insights in these) http://www.owen.org/blog/6588
Comment linking /blog/6588
on “Ask HN: How can we solve world poverty”Submitted Let’s help the Philippines — but not like we helped Haiti as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whose aid is most effective? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Driverless Cars, Asimov's Laws of Robotics, and the Trolley Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
