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Introducing Rich’s Review Repo
Your backstage pass to the software I actually use—and how I conjured the whole thing into existence. I test a lot of tools. Some are...

Rich Washburn
Jun 262 min read


A Mirror, Not a Messiah
How AI’s Quiet Manipulation Could Become Our Loudest Crisis This one hits home. It's personal. It's powerful. It's uncomfortable. Like...

Rich Washburn
Jun 264 min read


Retro Rabbit Holes, NeoCities, and the Accidental Summer STEM Project
So here’s the story: I was minding my business—probably watching a YouTube video about something I wasn’t going to do but felt better...

Rich Washburn
Jun 122 min read


Accidentally Unlocking Personal Cognition
A Three-Part Series to Blow Your Mind (Accidentally) You ever trip over a prompt and land in a whole new understanding of yourself, the...

Rich Washburn
Jun 61 min read


The Möbius Leap: Recursive Cognition at the Edge of Chaos
ARIA 3.0 — An Evolution in Thought Architecture Okay, so this one’s heady—but stay with me. It’s pretty cool. What started as a side...

Rich Washburn
Jun 64 min read


When to Start a New AI Chat
The Magnetic Field Metaphor—and a Few Pro Tips You Didn’t Know You Needed Imagine one of those glass tables filled with iron filings—the...

Rich Washburn
Jun 42 min read


Dunning-Kruger & AI: Metacognitive Resistance Training You Didn’t Know You Needed
Metacog-what now? Dude, now you’re just making up words. Not this time, dummy. (jk… kinda) So here’s the deal — and honestly, it still...

Rich Washburn
May 64 min read


Why We NEED a Billion Robots
We’re standing at the edge of a monumental shift in how we think about work, productivity, and automation. The conversation about...

Rich Washburn
May 24 min read


Is AI Making Us Dumb? Only If We Forget What Intelligence Actually Is
Remember this one? “ You won’t always have a calculator in your pocket! ” Oh, but I do. And it’s not just a calculator — it’s a weather...

Rich Washburn
Apr 293 min read


☕ My Coffee Now Has Wi-Fi. What Are You Doing With Your Life?
OK, so here's the deal: I was supposed to just knock out a simple control project for a client — build a gizmo that handles remote...

Rich Washburn
Apr 273 min read


From Tools to Teammates: How AI Is Rapidly Evolving into Collaborative Partners
A few months ago, I wrote about how artificial intelligence seems to flourish not in perfectly ordered systems or pure randomness—but in...

Rich Washburn
Apr 103 min read


"Ahead of the Fleet"
This morning, I got a call from Frank—a longtime Navy insider and someone who doesn’t pick up the phone just to make small talk. He was...

Rich Washburn
Apr 62 min read


So I Asked DeepSeek R1 to Summarize My Website, and It Made Me Sound Like a Time-Traveling Visionary from the Future
Okay, let’s just start by saying this: DeepSeek R1 absolutely crushed it when I asked it to summarize my website. I’m not even sure how...

Rich Washburn
Jan 275 min read


The Casual Consulting Method: How Authentic Conversations Lead to Authentic Results
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my career as a technologist, writer, and occasional AI whisperer, it’s this: authenticity isn’t just...

Rich Washburn
Jan 264 min read


From Stargates to AI: A Casual Chat Turned Consulting Deep Dive
It was supposed to be just a casual conversation—a friendly chat about the recent Stargate announcement by Trump and China’s latest...

Rich Washburn
Jan 264 min read


From Busy Work to Breakthroughs: How Small AI Wins Sparked a Culture Shift at XYZ Insurance
In today’s workplace, it’s often the hidden inefficiencies—what I like to call “loose screws”—that quietly eat away at productivity....

Rich Washburn
Jan 244 min read


From Dial-Up to AI: Why We’re Still in the Early Days of the Revolution
Remember the days of dial-up internet? You’d fire up your modem, endure that symphony of screeches and beeps, and maybe—just maybe—get...

Rich Washburn
Jan 163 min read


The Moment Everything Changed: Reflections on AI's Quiet Revolution
Sometime back in 2022—maybe early 2023—the world changed. Quietly. Subtly. Like a scene in a movie where everything seems normal until...

Rich Washburn
Jan 164 min read


Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents: A Bold Step Toward Smarter AI
The world of AI is evolving faster than ever, and frameworks like Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents (CoALA) represent a...

Rich Washburn
Dec 18, 20243 min read


Inside the AI Mind: From Black Box to Mirror of Human Thought
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral aspect of modern life, yet its inner workings remain enigmatic, often dismissed as an...

Rich Washburn
Nov 2, 20243 min read
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