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Heresy

April 2022One of the most surprising things I've witnessed in my lifetime is the rebirth of the concept of heresy.In his excellent biography of Newton,...

What I’ve Learned from Users

September 2022I recently told applicants to Y Combinator that the best advice I could give for getting in, per word, was Explain what...

Alien Truth

October 2022If there were intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe, they'd share certain truths in common with us. The truths of mathematics would be the same,...

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Stop monitoring systems; start monitoring outcomes

When millions of conversations flow through your platform daily, reliability isn’t just a technical metric – it’s the foundation of customer trust. At Intercom, where...

Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam’s new censorship rules in victory against ‘porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists’, and things only get...

Collective Shout, an Australian anti-pornography group, has claimed credit for Steam's recent removal of a large number of sexually explicit games and new, stricter...

Givers, Takers, and Building Cultures That Last with Adam Grant

I’m on my way to Chicago for the day to give several talks on Give First: The Power of Mentorship and spend time with my long-time...

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Enterprise Business Development Representative at Kyber

At Kyber, we're building the next-generation document platform for enterprises. Today, our AI-native solution transforms regulatory document workflows, enabling insurance claims organizations to consolidate...

Is AI Just Software? – Feld Thoughts

I decided to ask Claude (Opus 4), Gemini (2.5 Pro), and ChatGPT a few personal questions. I’m tired of the excessive anthropomorphizing of “AI...

How to Harness Prime Day Traffic Without Slashing Prices

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Amazon Prime Day means different things to different people....

How to Do Great Work

July 2023If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to...

GitHub – e6a5/zenta: zenta – mindfulness for terminal users 🧘‍♂️

Mindfulness that fits your coding flow When your mind wanders while coding, simply return to breath. No tracking, no metrics, no disruption—just pure awareness in...

Give First is a Philosophy, Not a Religion

Give First: The Power of Mentorship is now available in both physical and Kindle formats. BradTheBookSalesman says, “Don’t wait, buy it today!” And yes,...

Don’t Let Someone Steal Your Startup Idea

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Every entrepreneur has had that moment of inspiration, when...

Superlinear Returns

October 2023One of the most important things I didn't understand about the world when I was a child is the degree to which the returns...

Built For You Spring ‘25: The future of customer service is calling

Our vision is for Fin to answer any question, on any channel, across any platform. With our latest Built For You announcements, that vision...

Scaling our Observability platform beyond 100 Petabytes by embracing wide events and replacing OTel

Observability at scale: Our internal system grew from 19 PiB to 100 PB of uncompressed logs and from ~40 trillion to 500 trillion...

Book: The System: A Novel of the Deep State

I haven’t read much in the last 30 days as I’ve been consumed with writing, speaking, and events around the launch of Give First:...

How to Scale a Startup Without Sacrificing Your Family Life

Many entrepreneurs hit a point where they reach the same hard question: I'm growing my business, but am I losing myself and...