Recent Articles
28When Your VC Quits, Is The Founder Screwed?, Dads Are Doing More Dadding Than Ever, VC Who Founded Multibillion Firm Thinks Employees Need More Equity, AI for Old People +++ [link post]
Happy May! Happy URLs! Not AI. Actual photo. When Your VC Leaves, You Are Fundraising Again [Oana Olteanu/MotiveForce] &
5/9/2026
At AI Dinners, You Can Leave Before Dessert. And Other Rules for IRL IS BACK Networking
LinkedIn could save most VCs a step by adding a post template called “AI Dinner.” You upload a picture of th
4/18/2026
Why I Hope I’m Wrong When I Pass on Investing in a Startup
Was talking with a fellow VC the other day who had just decided, after substantial deliberation, not to invest in a star
4/17/2026
EmuDeck Store Gives Retro Homebrew Games a New Place to Shine - Retro Handhelds
4/6/2026
Hobbyist builds a homebrew Intel 8086 ISA accelerator card — maker’s project improves integer multiplication on these retro systems by 250% - Tom's Hardware
4/5/2026
Esoteric Ebb is the closest you'll get to playing a real D&D campaign in a video game - Polygon.com
4/5/2026
“Having said that, it’s not a company that I’d start today. My bar for working on meaningful problems has gone up since I was 24” – Dan Teran, on evolving from a founder to an investor, and building what matters to him.
Got to meet Dan Teran when we backed his NYC-startup ManagedByQ, in the office management vertical. Now more than a deca
4/1/2026
Homebrew is great, but this open-source GUI makes it way superior - MakeUseOf
3/31/2026
After 108 years, America’s oldest homebrew shop closes in Portland - The Portland Tribune
3/31/2026
That top Google result for Homebrew could infect your Mac - AppleInsider
3/30/2026
Don’t Worry 26, 34, 41 Year Old Friend In Tech. You’re Not ‘Too Old.’
Each morning I hand in my too cool GenX card for a few minutes and go STRAIGHT BOOMER while using Facebook to wish my fr
3/29/2026
F.H. Steinbart Homebrew Supply Blowout Sale and Farewell Closing Party - newschoolbeer.com
3/28/2026
Before You Automate It, Ask Whether You Should Even Be Doing It in the First Place
Automating a strategically sub-optimal process or workflow doesn’t make it markedly better. In some cases it’
3/25/2026
Opting Out of the Unicorn Race; The Code Doesn’t Love You Back – former Meta/Google Exec on How Engineering is Changing; A Case Against Big Companies (Why People Are Gonna Get Laid Off); and More+++ [link blog]
Spring Links! All personal blog posts today. No corporate (or even indie) media Outcome Engineering [Cory Ondrejka] R
3/22/2026
“If they raise VC, they usually get stuck and it’s a bad outcome for an otherwise good company.” Brad Hargreaves on which proptech companies should seek (or avoid) venture dollars. And more, from the founder of General Assembly, Common, and now, Thesis Driven.
I think Brad and I met back in the General Assembly days, which was one of the early code schools based out of NYC (inte
3/19/2026
The Southern Vermont HomeBrew Festival turns 10 - benningtonbanner.com
3/18/2026
“My one big tip for any of these business side roles is you still need to get close to the product. Nothing bothers me more than people that work at companies and never use their own products.” Zapier’s Corp Dev Lead Austin Johnsen on how AI is changing his job and building his own tools with Claude.
It’s fun to watch folks without engineering backgrounds go DIY with AI taking the lead. My friend Austin Johnsen l
3/17/2026
Can You Be Part of the System Without Also Being Part of the Problem? Yes but…
You are never alone – there’s always at least one other person working through the same questions. That̵
3/15/2026
Summer homebrew festival returning for 10th year in Bennington - news10.com
3/13/2026
“Vast wealth of tech billionaires has made many of them unconcerned with the little people’s lives — and deeply unpatriotic.” Is Paul Krugman correct?
Paul Krugman’s essay The Billionaire’s War covers why the wealthy won’t feel the consequences of Trump
3/12/2026
Upstream Homebrewers to host spring homebrew tasting - bemidjipioneer.com
3/9/2026
The AI Vampire; Startup Tolan Changes How It Hires Engineers in an AI World; Do You Back Into Parking Spots?; Social Engineer Hacks Against AI Agents; and More++ [link blog]
Links for the new month – happy March 1st! How We Hire Engineers When AI Writes Our Code [ Dan Federman / Tolan ]
3/1/2026
Get It Together: Popgeeks Reviews A Wild New Homebrew - PopGeeks
2/28/2026
No Coding Before 10am; VCs Are Investing in Competing Companies – DGAF About Conflicts; “Technology is Not Destiny” – Principles for AI’s Future; and +++ [link blog]
President’s Weekend link blog. Founding Furrthers VCs Break Taboo by Backing Both Anthropic, OpenAI in AI Battle [
2/14/2026
All the CRITICAL ROLE Campaign 4 D&D House and Homebrew Rules - Nerdist
12/23/2025
Inventors Brewpub hosts homebrew expo and Winter Beer Invitational - OnMilwaukee
12/12/2025
FH Steinbart, America’s Oldest Homebrew Store, 1918-2025 - beervanablog.com
12/4/2025
Homebrew Summer: Portrait of Van Gogh - San Diego Beer News
9/25/2025
Investment Signals
5VC partner departures from venture firms are increasingly common and require founders to restart their fundraising efforts.
Startup founders should provide more equity to early employees and be more transparent about the factors affecting equity value, not just share count.
AI-powered elderly care and wellness monitoring is an important area of development deserving both public research funding and private market investment, with applications in wellness checks, cognitive exercises, and companionship.
The author observes a trend of first-time event planners hosting AI-focused dinners, suggesting increasing accessibility and democratization of VC networking in the AI space.
VCs are increasingly organizing in-person networking events focused on AI founders and builders, indicating active engagement with early-stage AI ecosystem.