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The Fossil Fuel Mindset: How Ego, Meetings, and Fear Kill Modern Work
There are days when I leave a session feeling like we just cracked a new code for what’s possible. And then there are days like this . Yesterday was Alchemy at AI Speed —eight and a half hours of pure momentum. One client, one mission, one day. A full platform, born from nothing, live by dinner. That’s what it looks like when the spark hits oxygen. Today? Today was the opposite. Five months (actually five years ) into a project that should’ve taken five days . A team of smart

Rich Washburn
Nov 13, 20254 min read


I Don’t Have a Pick-and-Place Machine, and That’s the Real Problem with the World
There’s a guy on YouTube — a seemingly innocent man — who builds these tiny remote-control cars in his garage. They're adorable. They’re fast. They corner like little rally demons. He even programs them with wireless remotes and custom PCBs and prints the enclosures on what appears to be a farm of 3D printers. He’s smart. Creative. Focused. Wholesome, even. I hate him. Now to be clear, my hatred has nothing to do with the cars. The cars are great. I hope they go to nationals

Rich Washburn
Nov 10, 20253 min read


Thinking About Hosting a Custom GPT + VIBECODING Workshop… Would You Want This?
So I’ve been tossing around an idea — part experiment, part hangout — where we spend a couple hours together learning how to vibe-code our own custom GPTs and web apps. Picture this: laptops open, coffee in hand, me walking you step-by-step through how to take an idea and turn it into something real — something that actually runs on the internet before you leave the room. No coding degree. No dev team. No five-figure contracts. Just you, a laptop, and a couple hours to brin

Rich Washburn
Oct 16, 20252 min read


The Age of Ridiculous Invention: 2.0
(Still the same day. And yes, I’m still waiting for Amazon to catch up.) Hey, remember that ridiculous IR floodlight project from this...

Rich Washburn
Oct 10, 20253 min read


Stop Building Their Platforms. Start Building Yours.
Jack Dorsey recently said the quiet part out loud: every time you post, like, share, or retweet on social media, you’re not just...

Rich Washburn
Sep 30, 20253 min read


Hacking the Runner’s High: Harvard Proves What I’ve Been Doing All Along
For most of my adult life, I’ve been experimenting on myself. Call it biohacking, call it stubborn curiosity, call it refusing to let...

Rich Washburn
Sep 15, 20253 min read


BrandFlex: The Non-CRM CRM I Didn’t Mean to Build
Introducing BrandFlex Custom Business Platform—Conjured by AI, Shaped by Actual Requirements BrandFlex is a fully customizable,...

Rich Washburn
Jul 5, 20252 min read


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 26, 20252 min read


There's a Prompt for That: From Idea to Exit in the Age of AI
Let’s get something out of the way: we’re not guessing anymore. We’re not theorizing. We’re not wondering if AI-powered app creation...

Rich Washburn
Jun 25, 20253 min read


Who Needs Dropbox? How Two Forgotten Gadgets Became My Zero-Dollar Cloud Suite
The Closet Purge That Sparked a Weekend “A-Ha!” Saturday afternoon, I’m knee-deep in “Why do I still own this?” mode when a friend pings...

Rich Washburn
Jun 16, 20253 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 6, 20251 min read


Thought Google Owned Object Detection? Yeah... Me Too.
So I got pulled into a new AI project recently—one that leans into Object Detection. Now, most of my work is more “agentic”—you know,...

Rich Washburn
Jun 4, 20252 min read
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