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Welcome to Brydon's Field Notes.

You subscribed through shiftMode, my home for longer posts. Your Field Notes will also include updates from findBrydon, where I share experiments and works-in-progress.

Your first note includes my "Building in Public" guide - practical lessons from years of sharing work online. In the meantime, see …

Originally posted on Old shiftMode Jan 6, 2011

I realized last night as I pitched this idea once again that I’ve been pitching it privately for years but never in public. This is completely made this up so I have no idea if it’s practical and could be …

Originally posted on Substack October 6, 2023

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.", Winston Churchill

We hosted Startup Wakes as part of our Founders’ Club(FC) events at 349. I borrowed that term from Brad Feld.

In our case, I would wait until a …

Originally posted on Substack August 1, 2023

...and is venture capital illegal?

That subtitle was my original title but it seemed way too clickbaity, if that’s even a thing in an email newsletter?

“Venture investing is the answer to the question of what would happen if you staffed a …

Originally posted on Substack July 13, 2023

After quitting the job I was commuting to back in early 2000’s, I began working from home full-time. I loved spending more time with our young kids, it allowed me to spend more time in my community and less time in a …

Originally posted on Substack May 31, 2023

I expect we’ll be discussing remote work, in-office, shared office spaces plenty here. Those topics are hawt, hot, hawt!

I’m not sure if I’m personally ahead of the curve on this or behind or going full circle?

About 20 years …

We're starting new after a decade+ hiatus here. I'll be starting by migrating some of the more referenced posts from the various other places I've created content.

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