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Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.

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  Making AI agent hardware and software free to consumers dramatically lowers the barrier to entry and brings AI's benefits to ordinary people who otherwise wouldn't adopt it.

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  what Meta has assembled is free (to consumers) hardware and software that dramatically reduces the barrier to entry for ordinary people looking to harness the power of agents, making the AI upside a lot more accessible to the masses who don't want to buy a Mac Mini.

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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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  AI has lowered the barrier enough that non-technical people with strong ideas, taste, and cultural awareness can build successful businesses.

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  especially with AI now I'd say anyone can try, and non-technical people with the best ideas, creativity/taste and understanding of whatever cultural zeitgeist we're in can win

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Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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  Once the barrier to making a game collapsed, making a good game stopped being enough: no game gets noticed organically any more, so shipping without a marketing plan is unwise.

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  It's it's so massive that there is no way that your game will be organically noticed anymore pretty much period.

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Neurologist at Oxford; studies apathy, motivation and attention after brain injury, and edits the journal Brain.

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  Apathy is not a quieter brain but a costlier one: apathetic people burn more energy simply deciding whether an action is worth it.

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  It's showing us that apathetic people use more brain energy when they're making this decision. They have a bigger activation energy barrier to overcome because when they're making that decision, the brain is consuming more energy. It's consuming more glucose when it's doing that.

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  As AI lowers the barrier to building software, personal taste becomes a more valuable differentiator.

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  But along with the question of what you're willing to maintain, as the barriers to creation drop the value of taste will only increase.

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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  AI Futures Project

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  All of it is written with a much lower barrier to entry than my work, and I find the writing consistently strong and interesting.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  What stands between us and cheap lightweight vehicles is that they are illegal, not that they are hard to build.

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  Cheap, lightweight people movers are currently illegal in many situations, so regulation is a barrier.

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Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping the Housing Trap, and policy director at the Parking Reform Network. Wrote for Strong Towns from 2015, mostly about how housing markets actually set prices.

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  The single biggest barrier in the housing market is that most neighbourhoods are legally forbidden to add any housing at all.

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  The biggest barrier of all, of course, is that the majority of neighborhoods are not allowed to add any housing at all.

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