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

The Argument Against AI Writing Is At Least 2,400 Years Old

Bret Stephens says never write with AI. Reid Hoffman says judge the work, not the tool. I'm with Reid, and the argument Stephens is making has been made about every writing technology we've ever invented.

August 9, 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

Substack vs. X vs. LinkedIn vs. Medium vs. Blog

I’m so confused. I suppose that’s what you get when you hibernate from all things public for two years, then pick your head up and try to figure out the

June 9, 2025 · 2 min · Brad Feld

A Reading and Writing Week

As my writing progress on my two books – Startup Communities 2 and #GiveFirst – continue to equal zero and the pile of unread stuff reaches higher into the sky

September 8, 2017 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Propaganda, Fraud, and Small Talk

A snarky person could call the title of this post “the tagline for Facebook and Twitter.” A bitter person could expand this to mean all of media. I’ve got a cold

December 28, 2016 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Writing, Running, and Reading

It’s summertime and Snoopy is happy. I’m happy also. Summer is my favorite season. I’ve always been at my most creative in the summer and some of the profound life

May 30, 2016 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Long Form to Nano Form

As my newest book, Startup Opportunities: Know When To Quit Your Day Job, has begun shipping on Kindle (order now and give me feedback, leave a review) I’ve been thinking a

March 5, 2015 · 3 min · Brad Feld