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The End of OctoberBook

by Lawrence Wright

Who uses, recommends or left The End of October, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Brad Feld
Co-founder of Foundry Group and Techstars; has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
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It’s a book called The End of October. It’s written by a guy named Lawrence Wright, and it came out in April of this year, April 2020. And so he had to be done with it in February, so before the current pandemic probably had, and COVID had probably very little to do with the book. It is so good and so terrifying and so real on so many levels

The Tim Ferriss Show, "Brad Feld — The Art of Unplugging, Carving Your Own Path, and Riding the Entrepreneurial Rollercoaster (#448)"; adding a near-future novel to their science fiction picks. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.

2020-07-24·tim.blog ↗

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