Jon Baker

A bit about me: • Live in the mountains just outside Boulder, CO • Married 14 years. 3 kids under the age of 12. • Co-own Alpine Modern Cafe in Boulder, CO (two locations in Boulder and looking to expand in the Rocky Mountain West and beyond) • 3rd Place Maker - My mission is to create a new generation of spaces for people to gather and connect. • Interested in Small Business, Real Estate, Entrepreneurship • Here to connect, learn, grow. DMs open and would love to learn about you-

@JWLevitt Already laughing

one day (over a good IPA), we will laugh at optimization culture.

What's become very clear to me as I've started to integrate AI in my own business is that while AI is super powerful, it needs to be adapted to each and every business in unique ways. Restaurant people are not technical. They need ways to on-ramp into AI that don't feel totally overwhelming. I think there will be opportunity in every industry to operationalize AI and act as a bridge between technical know-how and operational know-how.

I want to help restaurants make the transition to AI. i'm building out an internal playbook for my own business but there's huge opportunities in this industry at the intersection of restaurants and AI I have domain expertise and a broad network within the industry. Who is AI native and wants to help build in this domain? huge TAM. very fragmented. Many playbooks to be written. operators hungry for operational leverage Shoot me a DM. My business can be the guinea pig.

@JWLevitt fast

The first mile of my sunday run is usually my hardest mile all week, especially after a 3hr trail adventure yesterday. Started sloggy, but kept going, and mile 12 ended up being nearly the fastest. Run the mile you’re in, and give yourself a chance to have a good day 🚀

That was my reaction to that post as well. the elegance of the Tesla interior is due to their full commitment to a certain design language and UI/UX that is very intuitive. The Ferrari interior feels over built. I get what they were trying to do… make a middle age guy feel like he’s in a cockpit..but feels clunky.

In 2007, there was a popular opinion that nobody will use a phone without a mechanical keyboard. This is identical. Anyone who drives a Tesla knows that a well-designed touchscreen is far better than a million buttons and knobs.

The reason I am an AI optimist is that the world is full of brilliant, driven, creative people Now these people - across science, medicine, technology, business and more - can create and iterate faster than ever before How could you not be hopeful?

I immediately don’t trust someone who speaks and has body language like this. Regardless of content.

@JWLevitt @AnthropicAI Performance has noticeably degraded. I haven't experienced this issue exactly, but overall it seems to be not quite as awesome as it was a few weeks ago.

All of a sudden Claude has decided it doesn't want to remember information from conversation to conversation, despite having that toggle on. Anyone else seeing this? What's going on, @AnthropicAI?

@RoryTyer Evil…

I think she is actually actively under demonic influence. she is just radically blaspheming / undermining everything about the Gospel & this deserves nothing but condemnation. May she repent

@Camp4 @BlackCoffeeMsla We just started roasting our own. Doing a slow rollout. Been a fun evolution.

@BlackCoffeeMsla For the first cup 😉

Just 15?

Productivity doesn't follow a bell curve. It follows a power law. The top 1% of workers produce as much as the bottom 57% combined. AI is an amplifier of this difference The 10x person becomes the 50x person. People that are already highly productive are becoming even more productive. Outcomes will be super divergent as those at the top run laps around those that are not very productive to begin with.

One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard.

This is explains a lot… With the continued rise of social media slop, it feels like we are doomed to further brain rot. So depressing. In the past, the primacy of the written word made twitter wonderful. Now it seems to be headed in the same direction at tik tok, instagram, etc.. an appeal to the lowest common denominator. Need to fix this slide into the abyss. @elonmusk @nikitabier

@rossiadam I do! My kids don’t get it

I will discover a new song and then listen to it hundreds of times a day on repeat. I do this for weeks or months until I finally move on. Before digital media I would record the same song repeated on both sides of a cassette tape and just let it run. Anyone else do this?

There is so much trash on this site. Stuff that I just don’t want to see. The viral rage posts, the AI hype bois with no real substance, the BREAKING! posts…etc I want more signal and less noise. I’d pay double to have the Algo remove this crap. It’s such a waste of my attention. So tired of it.

Normal people are not going to use Claude Code or open claw. It’s too technical. The learning curve is too demanding and confusing. A major player, like google, who already has tons of consumer adoption and data needs to solve this problem and make the UI/UX dead simple and easy to understand. The agent needs to be able to read across gmail, google drive, sheets, docs, etc.. etc.. Not sure how google solves this. Convert all google docs to markdown files that it can hold in memory or reference easily?

I predict that small businesses that heavily integrate AI into their operations will benefit from higher valuations and easier sale processes. Imagine if agentic systems have full context on the business past and present? What if those agents persist regardless of ownership? This unlocks the potential to make ownership transitions much more seamless and alleviates key man risk, owner dependency, etc. Has the potential to make the SMB market much more liquid. Thoughts? @ClintFiore

@SMB_Attorney That’s not true. Attorneys will bill for anything including filling out simple forms.

A $200/hour or higher corporate lawyer would’ve told you a decade ago that none of this was worth billing for… then emailed you a template and wished you the best.

@RyanDanz Exactly my thoughts!

what i envisioned Banksy looked like vs. what Banksy actually looks like 😭

Favorite recent iPhone productivity hack: I capture random to dos, reminders, ideas by sending myself an email. That email sits in my inbox until I decide what to do with it. I try to maintain inbox zero-ish. Not religious about it, but currently my personal email has zero inbox and work has 12 emails. I use superhuman for email. Here’s the hack: A double tap on the back of my iPhone opens an email to myself and then starts Wispr Flow. I dictate the email and then send it. Steps to setting this up: 1. Setup a shortcut cut action in short cuts app like what’s pictured. 2. Go settings > accessibility > touch > back tap > select shortcut to run. 3. That’s it