The 0 to 1 act of creation is about crossing the Coasian Floor.
The 0 to 1 act of creation is about crossing the Coasian Floor. Going from non-viable to viable. Igniting a latent possibility.
Topic: coasian floor
27 chunks · 19 episodes
2.7x burst in 2026 Q3
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- coasian floor appears in 27 chunks across 19 episodes, from 2025-03-17 to 2026-10-05.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 3/31/25 (2025-03-31), with 4 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with printing press, fixed cost, and magnitude cheaper, while by chunk count it sits between broken glass and extremely expensive; its yearly rank moved from #41 in 2025 to #32 in 2026.
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The architecture we've used for networked software has always been a dumpsterfire.
...p adversaries could afford to do it. For most uses, your software was below the Coasian Floor of being worth attacking. But now Fable-class models have lowered sea level by 10 meters. Now, the dumpsterfire is on the surface. The rate of securi...
AI will lead to an explosion of entrepreneurs.
AI will lead to an explosion of entrepreneurs. The Coasian Floor of the minimum viable venture has dropped precipitously.
Regulation, all else equal, tends to increase centralization.
...etter than smaller companies. The long-tail of smaller players is now below the Coasian floor and non-viable.
The asymptotic limit a Chatbot can achieve is the perfect search engine.
... a Chatbot can achieve is the perfect search engine. Real search engines have a Coasian floor. If the content that perfectly answers your question doesn't exist, or can't be found, then the query can only be answered approximately. Content cre...
Product-led enterprise companies tend to be self-serve and thus start with the smaller customers.
...wn to smaller. However, their selling motion presumes high-touch, and there's a Coasian Floor where a given marginal user is underwater.
When the Coasian Floor gets lower, the new things fill the spaces better.
When the Coasian Floor gets lower, the new things fill the spaces better. It's not that there's stuff that feels entirely new, it's that there's orders of magnitude more st...
LLMs have reduced the Coasian floor of answers and software.
LLMs have reduced the Coasian floor of answers and software. The Coasian Floor is the floor of what it makes sense for any commercial entity to bother producing. It has to do with the c...
Agents that are safe and easy to use have to be scoped down below the Coasian Floor of what consumers will want.
Agents that are safe and easy to use have to be scoped down below the Coasian Floor of what consumers will want. 1) Safe 2) Powerful 3) Easy to use In our current physics of trust, you have to pick 2.
The easier the product is to build, the smaller the market that is needed for it to be viable.
...e smaller the market that is needed for it to be viable. That is, the lower the Coasian Floor goes. Software used to be expensive enough to have a non-trivial Coasian Floor. Now, single-user software is viable.
LLMs have made it so much more of the potential of programming is possible.
...were non-viable. Too expensive compared to the value they'd create. A very high Coasian floor. But now the floor has dropped by a large amount. Suddenly much more of software's potential is possible.
As the cost of production goes down, the diversity of what is viable to publish goes up super-linearly.
...om antiquities. Nothing else cleared that floor. The printing press lowered the Coasian floor by making it orders of magnitude cheaper to produce books. A linear decrease in friction makes more of the power law above the viability waterline. T...
Jason Fried: The bespoke software revolution?
...ng that if you reduce the cost of software by multiple orders of magnitude, the coasian floor drops, and we'll see exponentially more software than before, because smaller niches will now be viable.[bd]
Two models for collaborating with LLMs for writing: AI-as-writer and AI-as-editor.
..."is this small improvement worth making this human frustrated?" There's a lower Coasian floor for nits worth flagging when working with an AI writer.
Centralization leads to scale, and scale leads to the Coasian Floor rising.
Centralization leads to scale, and scale leads to the Coasian Floor rising. The entity with access to the data is the one who is allowed to write the code. No one but the aggregator can write the feature, and they are...
An app that I used religiously when the kids were newborns is BabyConnect.
...ow many other little niche vertical OS style use cases exist that are below the coasian floor. Where a simple CRUD on top of a spreadsheet data would be life changing.
The Coasian Floor for a massive scaled company is huge.
The Coasian Floor for a massive scaled company is huge. The Coasian Floor is the minimum addressable market necessary for a company to bother building a feature. Becau...
There is a galaxy of missing apps.
...y of missing apps. Apps that could exist, but don't, because they are below the Coasian Floor. The universe of possible apps is orders of magnitude larger than the galaxy of apps that actually exist. Many of the missing apps are boring and mun...
Islands have to be big enough to be self-sufficient.
...r, and then dominate. The same is true with apps. A lot of things are below the coasian floor of viable apps.
Email is currently our digital home.
...t company assigning a PM and a handful of engineers to build. They're below the Coasian Floor. The interfaces we use today are limited by the imagination of some PM working at the company that built the app.[pj] Imagine a system isn't even lim...