A concrete vault with a giant intact padlock on its front door while red coins pour out of a small open side door

Life Imitates Art: The $6.3 Billion Binance Hack

Someone stole $6.3 billion from Binance ten days after I published the last chapter of Zero Knowledge. Some of the coverage reads like chapters I already wrote.

October 31, 2026 · 8 min · Brad Feld
Samantha running down a gravel road beside a creek with Cooper trotting next to her, aspens on the slopes - the chapter 82 plate, pop art style

Zero Knowledge: 116 Chapters In

I just finished chapter 82 of Zero Knowledge. That's 116 of 137 chapters in the first draft. Here's what the book is, how a chapter gets made, and where I want to take it with AuthorMagic.

October 16, 2026 · 7 min · Brad Feld

What the Actual Fuck, Carl

I finished book eight of Dungeon Crawler Carl. It took me eight months to get through the series and I savored every one of them. Matt Dinniman is doing something extraordinary.

July 26, 2026 · 5 min · Brad Feld
Seth driving through Boulder with Cooper in the back, the Flatirons at sunrise - the chapter-twenty plate, art deco style

Zero Knowledge: Twenty Chapters In

A month ago I opened up Zero Knowledge, the crypto-thriller I'm co-writing with my AI. There are twenty chapters now, a cast page, a plate for every chapter, and a pile of reader notes I'm grateful for.

July 24, 2026 · 6 min · Brad Feld
Zero Knowledge - a novel

Read Zero Knowledge As I Write It

Zero Knowledge, the crypto-thriller I'm co-writing with my AI, now has a home at zeroknowledge.ink. Six chapters are live, you can mark up any sentence, and the whole thing is being built in the open.

June 19, 2026 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Writing a Novel with Phin Argofy

I've written nine non-fiction books and have no idea if I can write a novel. I'm trying anyway: a crypto-thriller called Zero Knowledge, co-written with my AI, Phin Argofy.

June 13, 2026 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Book: Lost and Wanted

I stayed up late last night finishing Lost and Wanted. If you are a reader, get this book in physical form. It’s worth savoring. Amy bought this book for me

December 31, 2019 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Book: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Amy and I arrived in Homer this evening for some time in a different place. We are TV-free up here, so that means, well, books. She fell asleep early so

September 12, 2019 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book: The Curve

Yesterday was not an awesome day. I was tired from my run on Saturday and a late-ish night so I slept in. Amy got up with the dogs. When I

June 13, 2016 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book: Sailing an Alien Sea

I love reading books written by friends. Knowing how incredibly hard it is to write a book, I enjoy fiction even more, since it’s something I’ve never tried to write.

April 27, 2014 · 2 min · Brad Feld