5 days a week in the gym 5 days a week in the office Never enjoyed my job more @Baselayerhq

gpt 6 astra vs claude opus 5.5 motion graphics side by side with same prompt "create a motion graphic for Baselayer" and gave it our website"

such rage bait from Jensen, basic math is 100% needed as a skill but do agree that the skills of the next generation are changing with ai there will be net new occupations being a content creator wasn’t a thing till mid 2010s

I’ll pay $15k to help us find an AI-pilled marketer for Baselayer Someone who can: - Find the manual work slowing marketing down - Build tools and automations people actually use - Get the team comfortable working with AI $15k if we hire your referral Tag the best marketing engineers in comments

At Baselayer, we made it a goal to reply to customers within 20 minutes A customer saying “we’re having a problem” shouldn’t have to wait until you’ve solved it to hear from you “I see it. We’re on it” takes seconds Don’t leave them wondering whether anyone’s paying attention

Mark doesn’t need to be the next Steve Jobs He wants to stop depending on the platform Jobs built “They have used that platform to put in place a lot of rules… they haven’t really invented anything great in a while” Mark estimates Meta could make roughly twice as much profit without Apple’s restrictions This makes Meta’s hardware ambitions easier to understand Build the next platform or keep asking permission, that is what Zuck thinks about

I recently lost 40 pounds and I look noticeably leaner When people ask & I tell them it was 40 pounds, they typically freak out (I didn’t look “heavy” beforehand) Most don’t understand how hard it is to be “lean” SO much more work than it looks. Complete lifestyle change

Zuck really going to own social media and payments?

Businesses need a way to let legitimate agents through while filtering out bad actors An agent buying for a customer and one submitting fraudulent applications can fill out the same form You need to verify who’s behind it, what they authorized, and whether that business has already been flagged elsewhere Fraudsters already move from one institution to the next and agents let them do it faster

Buying from your startup is a career risk for someone If it fails, they’re the person who picked you Established vendors get trust upfront because picking a name brand never got anyone fired You have to give them reasons to believe it’ll pay off

Amazon blocking Muse is an early battle in a much bigger standoff between merchants and agent builders. Amazon started blocking agents in July 2025 and has sued Perplexity. It makes sense: agentic traffic either appears anonymous (disintermediating customer discovery, loyalty, retargeting, and up-sell) or as a human (increasing dispute and fraud risk). Consumer trust in agents is emerging faster than anticipated. Instinct reported that users who make purchases through its agent spend an average of $1,300 a month. Meta holds immense context on consumer preferences and can deliver highly personalized shopping experiences. Computer use agents also bridge the merchant readiness gap. They can navigate UI and checkout pages built for humans, without waiting for every merchant to adopt agentic protocols or open up APIs. Merchants and commerce platforms face the same trade-off: how much access should agents get, and on what terms? The economics of losing the customer interface are substantial, and merchants currently bear the loss of disputed transactions. If agents bypass ads, agent platforms may become the next distribution gatekeepers, charging merchants for access to consumer demand. Platforms like Amazon can hold out, but smaller players will have less leverage to turn away agents. Blocking outright also creates hazardous incentives: agents that identify themselves get rejected; agents that impersonate a human get through. This creates a cat and mouse game where agent builders conceal agent identity and merchants escalate detection. Agentic commerce needs identity for both sides to benefit: verified agents should be able to access more of the web. Merchants should be able to detect an agent, identify who it represents and what it is authorized to do, attribute traffic, recognize returning customers and apply appropriate fraud controls. Identity won’t settle every argument about distribution and economics, but it gives both sides the foundation to negotiate access and a reason to transact openly.

Legora just passed $200M ARR Three things AI founders should study in this demo: > Go where customers work Legora lives inside Word and Outlook. Lawyers keep their workflow and lose the busywork > Make the work checkable “We don’t call this vibe drafting for a reason” Answers link to source documents. A lawyer’s license is on the line > Learn their rules Each firm brings its own templates, language and contract playbooks Much easier to adopt software that already works the way you do

A great hire can keep up with your speed of thinking, challenge you, and add to it Feels like tennis with someone who makes you better

Went to dinner with friends and asked how dating in SF was going “The odds are good, but the goods are odd…@brookeleblanc is right”

I see a lot of discourse about not wanting to give Meta/Muse more power Consumers not wanting to give even more data to a platform they already feel have over reached And to competing businesses such as Amazon that don’t let agents scroll and buy on their behalf Amazon will reverse this ruling if agents become the “new credit card” as Max says in the video

Elon is fighting back tears as he’s asked about criticism from Neil Armstrong and other astronauts “Those guys are heroes of mine” I think a lot of founders want approval from the people who inspired them to build something in the first place And you might never get it You still have to decide whether it’s worth doing

A junior role at a hypergrowth startup is a double-edged sword Unlimited freedom, multiple hats, and almost no guidance If you’re great, you can compress years of learning If you’re not, you can waste them running in circles and collecting logos nobody cares about

Immigrant parents spend their whole lives sacrificing for their children As their kids, the burden we carry is making them proud and making that sacrifice worth it When I told my parents I left investment banking for the startup world, they freaked out “Why would you leave JPM for a no-name company?” Hard to explain how much experience I gained at that no-name company They really thought I’d lost it “Do you have healthcare?” “Do you have a 401k?” “Are you paying yourselves?” We had just raised $7M I was confused by the questions, but they were just being sweet, so I went with it When we later raised $10M, $20M, and then $40M, they honestly didn’t believe me “Be so careful” “Don’t do anything wrong with the money” “God bless you” They didn’t understand startups or venture funding They understood faith, family, hard work and protecting their kids I understand their questions a lot more now A lot of what drives me is making their sacrifice worth it