Brad Feld on Labor Day, Turning 61, and Rethinking What Matters

This is a short personal essay by venture capitalist Brad Feld, not a technology or security story. Feld frames Labor Day weekend as his lifelong “back to school” marker — a habit rooted in a Dallas childhood where school didn’t resume until after the holiday — and echoes an earlier post of his casting Memorial Day and Labor Day as summer’s bookends.

The reflective turn is age: now 60 and nearing 61, Feld says he’s spending more time weighing what he actually cares about, prompted in part by a list his wife Amy texted him. The piece reads as an opening to a longer meditation on priorities and “the real luxuries in life” rather than a finished argument.

Editorially, there’s no cybersecurity, tech-industry, or policy substance here — it surfaced via Hacker News but carries no news value for a technical security audience. Worth noting only as a well-known tech figure’s personal writing; not a candidate for coverage.