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

Tom Evslin Gave Me Chills Today

Reading today’s episode of hackoff.com gave me the chills. Tom has deeply woven the events of 9/11 in his story as Chapter 10 happens on 9/11 (and several of the main

December 16, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld