Book Review: Sex and the Single Zillionaire

With a title like Sex and the Single Zillionaire, it’s either going to be really good or really bad. This isn’t my typical genre of mental floss, but since it

February 4, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Evslin Signs First hackoff.com Books

Ah – the sound of a fresh binding cracking open. Tom Evslin just signed 25 books for me. These are apparently the first copies of hackoff.com to be signed by

January 24, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: Confronting Reality

Confronting Reality was awful. The celebrated authors of this book – Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan – should consider confronting the reality that the world does not need yet another [

January 21, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Q106 Entrepreneurship / Venture Capital Books

I get a lot of questions about “the best entrepreneurship / venture capital books.” Q106 promises to be a good quarter for them as Tom Evslin’s hackoff.com: An Historic Murder

January 16, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

James Frey Should Not Be Hung Out To Dry

I’m a huge James Frey fan – I loved both of his books A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard. He’s recently been beaten up for embellishing his story as

January 13, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Apple AirPort Express

When I was in Aspen in December, I once again found myself sitting in a house with Internet access (via DSL) but without wireless. This time there were only three of

January 7, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Retro-Electro – Electronic Porn

My long time friend Scott Moody once told me that “old computers are like porn to me.” I agree – over the years I’ve spend my fair share of money

January 7, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

IBM X41 – Still Great Three Months Later

Another day, another question to answer that was stuck in my “answer this question on your blog” someday folder in Outlook. When I got my new IBM X41 tablet in

January 2, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: The Protege

I took a break from Carnegie (which is amazing, but it’s massive – really two books) to gobble down some mental floss yesterday. Stephen Frey’s new book The Protege i

January 2, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: Fooled By Randomness

Fooled By Randomness was unquestionably the best non-fiction book I read in 2005. The author – Nassim Nicholas Taleb – is a magnificent writer, deeply intellectual, and delightfully

January 1, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld