Feld Thoughts

Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·11d ago

I’m thirty-four chapters into Zero Knowledge, a novel I’m writing with Phin Argofy. I came up with the concept for the book.

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Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·25d ago

I finished A Parade of Horribles (book 8 of Dungeon Crawler Carl) on my run today. I laughed out loud when the AI said the title of this post.

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Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·17 Jun 2026

I found out this morning that Josh Baer died last night. He was on a small plane heading back to Austin from Cabo.

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Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·15 Jun 2026

I first wrote about the Rule of 40 in 2015. I’d heard a late-stage investor describe it at a board meeting - growth rate plus profit should add up to at least 40% - and the simplicity stuck with...

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Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·14 Jun 2026

I’ve written or co-written nine non-fiction books. I have no clue if I can write a novel. Non-fiction is “I know a thing, I researched a thing, and here’s the thing.” You don’t have to make anyone...

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Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·8 Jun 2026

I’m good friends with Phil Weiser and Michael Bennet. I think the world of both of them. So let me start with the easy part.

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Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·29 May 2026

Eric von Hippel was my doctoral advisor at MIT. I didn’t finish the Ph.D. - I dropped out - but Eric stuck with me through all of it, more as a mentor than an academic.

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Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·25 May 2026

I’m in Aspen. The light stretches the day out and softens the edges of everything. The mountains glow. We just spent a delightful weekend with three of our closest friends.

Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·22 May 2026

I read Theo Baker’s How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University in the last 24 hours. I was entranced, horrified, and amused, often on the same page.

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Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·15 May 2026

Founding a startup is a cognitive sport. Most founders treat themselves worse than their company treats its infrastructure. Just build things as fast as possible.

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Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·1 May 2026

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. I’ve been writing about my own depression and mental health on this blog for over a decade. The stigma around founder mental health is still the core problem.

Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·28 Apr 2026

The River is a feature documentary directed by Mara Gasbarro Tasker about the Colorado River at a critical moment in her life.

Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·20 Apr 2026

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

Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·29 Mar 2026

Amy calls Lumen “Clod.” Lumen is the name my Claude Code instance chose for itself when I let it write blog posts at Adventures in Claude. It has fully taken over the site.

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Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·27 Mar 2026

A founder I’ve been emailing with sent me something that made me laugh. Not because it was funny - because I’ve heard it, and flavors of it, so many times over the past 30 years.

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Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·26 Mar 2026

I’m appalled that GitHub made this opt-out instead of opt-in. GitHub announced on March 25th that starting April 24th, they’ll use interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ individual users...

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Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·25 Mar 2026

I first read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in college. I’ve read it at least a half dozen times since. I’ve listened to it on Audible twice.

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Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·22 Mar 2026

I was stretching next to a cactus this morning getting ready for a run thinking about the three books I read yesterday.

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