Brad Feld
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
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Their wordsThe political shift in the Bay Area and among many in tech felt dramatic and sudden to me, but as I read the book, I realized it had been developing in plain sight for over a decade.
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Things are understood better from books than from newspapers, television, or social media.
Their wordsI’ve also always understood things better from books than from newspapers, television, or social media.
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Incompatible, walled-off vendor systems that refuse to interoperate are a form of enshittification.
Their wordsall you need to know is that none of these systems talks to any of the others, which is enshittification in action.
↗Overwatch: One Home Automation Dashboard to Rule Them Allfeld.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsI long for the halcyon days of early Web 2.0 when it was predicted that all APIs would work with everything and data and control would belong to the user. Oh well - that didn't happen.
↗Overwatch: One Home Automation Dashboard to Rule Them Allfeld.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 weeks earlier
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New technologies raise the ceiling for skilled practitioners instead of diminishing them.
AI and jobsAI and human skillinnovation
Their wordsWhat actually happened each time a new technology was introduced is that the ceiling went higher.
↗The Argument Against AI Writing Is At Least 2,400 Years Oldfeld.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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writingAI writingideas vs execution
Their wordsThe transgression isn't using the machine. It's hitting a button, not reading what comes back, and publishing it under your name.
↗The Argument Against AI Writing Is At Least 2,400 Years Oldfeld.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsworld building can't simply be decoration. It has to be integral to the plot.
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A reader's own mental image of a character is as valid as the author's depiction of them.
Their wordsSome readers like this, others don't, and if the Samantha in your head looks nothing like the one on the page, yours is the correct one.
- 5 weeks earlier
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Their wordsI would rather learn a chapter is broken now, from you, than after I've built ninety more on top of it.
↗Read Zero Knowledge As I Write Itfeld.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Doing creative work in public, where failures are visible, produces faster useful feedback.
Their wordsI'm doing it in public, where the failures show and crap gets feedback quickly so I can improve.
↗Read Zero Knowledge As I Write Itfeld.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsa great entrepreneurial ecosystem is built by the entrepreneurs who lead it, take a long-term view, and give first.
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Their wordsthe market rewards growth until it doesn't, and then it rewards profitability.
↗Does the Rule of 40 Work for Hardware?feld.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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A hardware company can be doing everything right and still fail the Rule of 40 for years.
Their wordsA hardware company doing everything right can fail the Rule of 40 for years.
↗Does the Rule of 40 Work for Hardware?feld.com 2nd of 2 in this piece