Brad Feld

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  • Savant Disliked

    One of them is a Savant system that both Amy and I are sick of because it’s so pathetic.

    feld.com 2026-09-04

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  • J. Geiger shades Loved

    We have shades from J. Geiger

    feld.com 2026-09-04

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  • Dungeon Crawler Carl Loved

    I’ve savored this series for the past eight months, listening to about one a month on Audible while I run.

    feld.com 2026-07-26

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  • How to Rule the World Loved

    I was entranced, horrified, and amused, often on the same page.

    feld.com 2026-05-22

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  • How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University Loved

    I was entranced, horrified, and amused, often on the same page.

    feld.com 2026-05-21

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  • Incorruptible Recommends

    The Lean Startup helps you build a valuable company. Incorruptible is about how and why to protect it, keeping a company mission-driven over the long term instead of letting it rot from the inside.

    feld.com 2026-04-20

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  • The Lean Startup Loved

    Eric Ries wrote The Lean Startup in 2011 and changed how a generation of founders thought about building companies.

    feld.com 2026-04-20

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  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Loved

    I’ve read it at least a half dozen times since. I’ve listened to it on Audible twice.

    feld.com 2026-03-25

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  • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life Liked

    Paul’s book reinforced the framing for what I’ve been doing.

    feld.com 2026-03-22

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  • Hiking Zen: Train Your Mind in Nature Liked

    The book isn’t about covering miles or conquering peaks. It’s about what happens when you pay attention on a trail.

    feld.com 2026-03-22

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  • Burn Bright, Not Out Recommends

    His book Burn Bright, Not Out - co-authored with Django De Gree - is what I wish had existed a long time ago.

    feld.com 2026-03-22

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  • Capital Evolution: The New American Economy Loved

    Seth and his co-author, Elizabeth MacBride, do an outstanding job of defining capitalism clearly and explaining how it evolved into today’s approach.

    feld.com 2025-12-09

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  • Give First: The Power of Mentorship Recommends

    Give First is now available to pre-order in Audiobook format

    feld.com 2025-11-25

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  • Enshittification Loved

    I’ve been a long-time Cory Doctorow fan. His new book Enshittification is delicious.

    feld.com 2025-11-21

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  • Echoes of October Liked

    I approached Echoes of October with trepidation. A graphic novel about violence and grief isn’t easy terrain. But it succeeds in a haunting, urgent way.

    feld.com 2025-10-11

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  • AI & I Recommends

    If you want the short version, the recent AI & I podcast with Reid is an excellent way to get a feel for it.

    feld.com 2025-09-12

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  • Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future Loved

    is spectacular and a must-read for every non-technologist about how to think about this “AI thing.”

    feld.com 2025-09-12

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  • City on the Edge Loved

    It’s fantastic and is going to be a powerful and definitive story of San Francisco from 1990 to the present day.

    feld.com 2025-09-03

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  • The Night Slayer Liked

    George would write an epic YA coming-of-age fantasy series that moves faster than the Percy Jackson books

    feld.com 2025-09-03

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  • Ensorcelled Loved

    Ensorcelled by Eliot Peper is genius. It’s a unique format that can be read in one setting. The writing is beautiful.

    feld.com 2025-09-03

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  • Fever Pitch: A Novel About Selling Your Vision, Raising Venture Capital, and Launching Your Startup Loved

    was delightful!

    feld.com 2025-06-23

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  • Little Black Classics Box Set Read

    It’s my summer reading project, which is a curated library of eighty pocket-sized books that encapsulate the breadth and diversity of literary history.

    feld.com 2025-06-19

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  • The System: A Novel of the Deep State Loved

    I love Barry’s writing and read every book he writes. He has total mastery of the contemporary thriller with extraordinarily vibrant characters and a zillion endnotes that tie to things that are actually happening in the real world.

    feld.com 2025-06-19

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  • The Big Gamble Liked

    The Big Gamble was good.

    feld.com 2025-05-05

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  • Carrie Soto Is Back Loved

    But Carrie Soto Is Back was spectacular.

    feld.com 2025-05-05

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  • Venture Adventure: Startup Fundraising Advice from Top Global Investors Recommends

    both of which I recommend

    feld.com 2025-04-22

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  • Ecosystem Arabia: The Making of a New Economy Recommends

    I have written forewords for Amir in the past on two of his prior books, Ecosystem Arabia: The Making of a New Economy and Venture Adventure: Startup Fundraising Advice from Top Global Investors, both of which I recommend.

    feld.com 2025-04-22

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  • Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Shaped the Internet Age and Dot-Com Boom Loved

    See an excerpt explaining why I loved reading this book.

    feld.com 2025-01-10

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  • Unshackled: A Practical Guide For Highly-Skilled Immigrants To Thrive In The United States Recommends

    breaks down how legal immigration works in America in a way that is friendly, accessible, and human

    feld.com 2023-07-17

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  • Avid Reader: A Life Recommends

    If you want to understand that in-depth, grab a copy of Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb.

    feld.com 2023-05-21

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  • String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis Liked

    coming in a close second

    feld.com 2023-05-21

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  • Levels of the Game Loved

    I’ve read many books about tennis, but it’s still my favorite

    feld.com 2023-05-21

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  • Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process Loved

    McPhee is a spectacular writer.

    feld.com 2023-05-21

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  • Every piece of my home automation already worked. The only broken thing was that none of them talk to each other. So I built the dashboard myself. 4 Sept
  • Overwatch: One Home Automation Dashboard to Rule Them All 4 Sept
  • Chapter 24.1: The Third Row Eleven people know there are three founders, not two. Their lawyer cuts every promise. These are the people trying to save her. "Sh… 3 Sept
  • Chapter 23.1: The Third Chair An FBI agent counts three chairs at a bench in the empty Basalt lab. Payroll says two people worked there, and the third name on… 2 Sept
  • Chapter 22.1: The Log Dolores has worked the same hospital basement for twenty-two years. This morning a pump refuses a firmware update it would have accepted… 31 Aug
  • Chapter 20.1: The Long Drive Three founders Seth backed have gone dark. One texted him at 3 a.m. and stopped answering. He rehearses what he will say if Marcus… 31 Aug

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  • A reader emailed to say he was getting tired of the setting. He was right, so I'm adding 40 chapters to Zero Knowledge - 23 of them inside the part that's alre… 30 Aug
  • Chapter 43: Out Loud Marcus is offered eight hours on a quantum computer. He pays by promising never to sell what his team built. Vlad asks what he gave away.… 30 Aug
  • Chapter 42: The List Marcus runs the numbers: ten billion in labor. Then he thinks through potential buyers for one that is safe. "It takes four minutes to loa… 30 Aug
  • I spent four days building the machinery around my novel instead of writing it. A dashboard that turns reader notes into published edits, two websites that exi… 30 Aug
  • Chapter 41: E. Voss An overnight block on a machine in Ohio is booked under their board member's name. Samantha cannot prove it is her and answers anyway. She… 28 Aug
  • Chapter 40: Lead Time A foreign operative reads parts shortages to time the emergency. The model said nineteen weeks; now it says twenty days. So the call goes… 27 Aug
  • Chapter 39: Fifteen A stranger indexes eleven terabytes of stolen data. Vlad types his mother's street into it. Marcus asks why anyone would dump it all now. "… 26 Aug
  • Chapter 38: Speaker Request An MIT physicist pulls down a seminar video she promised to delete two years ago. Two dots on a chart told her what her friend did.… 22 Aug
  • New chapter. A man dies standing in line outside a credit union in Tampa. Sixty-eight, five hours in the sun, and they are calling it a medical event. One of m… 22 Aug
  • New chapter. A man empties a credit union account and puts nineteen thousand dollars in a coffee can on his refrigerator. The teller had to get the manager. He… 21 Aug
  • The Argument Against AI Writing Is At Least 2,400 Years Old 9 Aug
  • What the Actual Fuck, Carl 26 Jul
  • Zero Knowledge: Twenty Chapters In 24 Jul
  • Read Zero Knowledge As I Write It 19 Jun
  • RIP Josh Baer 17 Jun
  • Does the Rule of 40 Work for Hardware? 15 Jun
  • Writing a Novel with Phin Argofy 14 Jun
  • Phil Weiser For Colorado Governor 8 Jun
  • The Premise: The Lead User and the Machines That Build Machines 29 May
  • It's Summertime 25 May
  • How to Rule the World 22 May
  • The Cognitive Sport of Building Startups 15 May
  • Burn Bright, Not Out 1 May
  • The River 28 Apr
  • Burn Bright, Not Out 22 Mar Recommends
  • Hiking Zen: Train Your Mind in Nature 22 Mar Liked
  • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life 22 Mar Liked
  • Capital Evolution: The New American Economy 9 Dec 2025 Loved
  • Give First: The Power of Mentorship 25 Nov 2025 Recommendstheir own
  • Enshittification 21 Nov 2025 Loved
  • Echoes of October 11 Oct 2025 Liked
  • Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future 12 Sept 2025 Loved
  • AI & I 12 Sept 2025 Recommends
  • Ensorcelled 3 Sept 2025 Loved
  • The Night Slayer 3 Sept 2025 Liked
  • City on the Edge 3 Sept 2025 Loved
  • Fever Pitch: A Novel About Selling Your Vision, Raising Venture Capital, and Launching Your Startup 23 Jun 2025 Loved
  • The System: A Novel of the Deep State 19 Jun 2025 Loved
  • Little Black Classics Box Set 19 Jun 2025 Read