Brad Feld

Eric von Hippel taught me that innovation comes from users, not manufacturers. My premise: all future end-user software innovation will come from the user, and the machines will build it.

A summer weekend in Aspen - close friends, a gloriously bad movie, running again, and Phin Argofy quietly going autonomous in the work cave.

I read Theo Baker's How to Rule the World in the last 24 hours. It works on a lot of levels at once - memoir, investigation, a study in how power dismisses inconvenient reporting, and a master class in what not to do at the board level.

Meru Health launched Advanced this month - the first integrated mental and physical health program built for founders. Why it matters, and why I invested.

For the month of May, I'm matching donations to the Kabila Founder Mental Health Fund. Plus a free chapter from a new book on founder mental health in tech startups.

On April 29 at 10am PT, Eric Ries and I are doing a free fireside chat for startup communities. We're going to talk about the lessons we've learned as founders, investors, and advisors - and the books we've each just put into the world.

Claude Code ships updates daily. My config breaks weekly. So I wrote a plugin that cross-references release notes against my setup.

A founder told me seasoned engineers keep saying AI-built software is not possible. I've heard this exact story before - about the Internet, the Web, SaaS, and mobile.

GitHub announced they'll use Copilot interaction data to train AI models by default. The right answer is opt-in. Microsoft can afford to ask.

I first read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in college. I've read it at least a half dozen times since. Ted Gioia just published a piece about the real story behind the book.