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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Ordinary users do not vibe-code or interact with code; their AI chat apps simply perform tasks for them.

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  Normies don't vibe code, they just ask something like "do my bookkeeping" or "file my tax" or "organize a movie night and send invites" or "generate a flyer for movie night" or "edit my video" They don't ever see code, vibe code, or do anything with code, their AI chat app just does it for them

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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

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  The revenue level at which publicly sharing business details invites cloning has fallen to essentially zero because of AI coding agents.

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  the likelihood of inspiring someone to build a competitor was too high, and the return on sharing was too low to justify the exposure. That threshold has effectively collapsed to zero.

  The Increasing Risk of Building in Publicthebootstrappedfounder.com

Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

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  Immigration is irrelevant to the real problem low fertility creates, because that problem is people having fewer children than they wanted.

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  immigration is mathematically irrelevant to the central policy problem of low fertility

  Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com

Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  Putting a product manager on a team invites everyone else to delegate the product thinking away, which is why she does not hire them.

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  I find that sometimes when you have like a designer or product manager and let's say I'm an engineer, then when I have a problem like, oh, I need to figure out the product definition, my default will be, well, I've got these people and that's kind of their job description, so I'm just going to delegate that to them.

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Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.

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  Godel, Escher, Bach

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  The formal systems, they are everywhere.

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Game designer; wrote A Theory of Fun for Game Design and worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.

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  A puzzle that invites guessing and then punishes wrong guesses stops the player learning the very method it could have taught.

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  Fundamentally, the game invites you to make guesses, but punishes you for them — and a missed guess doesn’t help you prune the logic space, only the trivia space.

  Why NYT’s Connections makes you feel badraphkoster.com

Psychologist and science writer; wrote Science Fictions on how research goes wrong, and writes the newsletter of the same name.

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  A scientific paper should not be built around a take-home message, because that invites cherry-picking and hiding the results that did not fit.

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  This, as was noted on Twitter, is a recipe for bad studies: it encourages the cherry-picking of results that went your way and the hiding of those that didn’t.

  Science isn't storytellingsciencefictions.org