Why Was Brad Feld Hibernating

Brad Feld on today’s VC culture:

I was tired of the VC industry and its noise. The endless self-promotion combined with “I know the answer – look at me” mixed with thought pieces ghostwritten by marketing professionals and then endless VC Twitter from the same person, much of which didn’t line up philosophically, got me down. And, well, podcasts are so easy compared to writing – the person blathers on about whatever is on their mind, reacts to a current thing, and influences so many with such thin suppositions that are often nonsense.
Some people I thought I’d respected had shifted some of their behavior, not as extreme as it is now, but it was increasingly distasteful to me. 
Critical thinking seems to have been discarded in many parts of my world. The view was, “If I assert something loudly or strongly enough, over and over, it becomes the truth.”

Brad (like Bijan Sabet) is a thoughtful man who writes with complete honesty and candor. You can just read that one paragraph to know what I mean. I have missed Brad’s writing. I am so glad he is back to blogging after two years of hibernating from the public sphere. It is good to see his blog posts pop up in my RSS reader, much like Bijan’s posts.