Anand Giridharadas

1 week ago | open.substack.com | Anand Giridharadas

We just got off a call with the technology journalist Karen Hao, the keenest chronicler of the technology that’s promising — or threatening — to reshape the world, who has a new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.

2 weeks ago | the.ink | Anand Giridharadas |Jim Acosta |Aaron Parnas

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2 weeks ago | the.ink | Anand Giridharadas

I’m so proud of this book club. The idea that we can get thousands of people to engage with a book, discuss it together, meet the authors, struggle with the ideas, and do so with kindness, openness, and an interest in learning — a modern miracle!For our third meeting of the Book Club, we were joined by Abundance authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.

2 weeks ago | the.ink | Anand Giridharadas

I was going to be brave, but we’re all on my health insurance. I was going to be brave, but I have a mortgage. I was going to be brave, but have you seen what college costs now? I was going to be brave, but my stock options haven’t vested yet. I was going to be brave, but our cancer research depends on federal funding. I was going to be brave, but I think I should wait until my platform is bigger. I was going to be brave, but then I got a book deal.

2 weeks ago | the.ink | Anand Giridharadas

I’ve been seeing commencement addresses popping up here and there. Unfortunately, I’m the kind of person who is invited to do everything exactly once. Not sure what it is about me…So I thought I would share the one and only commencement address I have ever given, to my former high school, Sidwell Friends.