Book Review: Extremly Loud & Incredibly Close

If you like to read, think, or even breathe, you must read Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. After Amy finished it the other night, she told me it the was

July 11, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Roomba – July's Toy of the Month

I’ve always had poor impulse control when it comes to buying electronic toys. Amazon hasn’t helped, as I can satisfy my cravings with a single click. While I was listening

July 9, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: The Long Walk

Slavomir Rawicz’s The Long Walk has replaced James Frey’s books as the best book of the year. Several people recommended it to me and it was simply awesome. Rawicz tells t

July 3, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: The Economics of Innocent Fraud

My summer “book a day diet” began with a chewy one. Fortunately it was short (a “bookette” – only 62 pages). John Kenneth Galbraith is 95 years old. So

June 30, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: My Friend Leonard

When I read James Frey’s first book A Million Little Pieces, I thought it was the most intense book I had read in a long time. Frey’s second book –

June 26, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Books: Poker, Baseball, and Personal Fabricators

My traveling – which was pretty intense the past few months – has slowed down. Correspondingly, my reading has picked up again. Not surprisingly I’ve got a huge pile of [

June 19, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: The Washingtonienne

I’ve been working my way through Eric von Hippel’s newest book Democratizing Innovation (Eric was my doctoral advisor at MIT – I didn’t get my Ph.D.) I nee

June 6, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: The Warren Buffett CEO

If you are a Warren Buffett fan like I am, then you’ll enjoy The Warren Buffett CEO: Secrets From The Berkshire Hathaway Managers. While Buffett’s Letters and Berkshire Hathaway

May 28, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Books: Cold Service – Time to Go Brush My Teeth

I’ve been reading Friedman’s The World Is Flat but I keep getting distracted by mental floss as all of my favorite writers release their summer junk. I got sucked into Stuart

May 3, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Book Review: Two Dollar Bill – More Stone Barrington

Ah – it’s spring time and all of the writers who crank out summer mental floss books are seeing their books hit the stores now. Stuart Woods new Stone Barrington

April 29, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld