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Profit Arena: The AI Benchmark That Could Reshape the Markets
Not long ago, my buddy Todd and I were having one of those conversations that keeps coming up these days: “How can I use AI in the...

Rich Washburn
Aug 213 min read


Why AI Needs a Jobsian Visionary
Civilizations don’t progress in straight lines. They don’t crawl forward on quarterly earnings or incremental feature releases. They...

Rich Washburn
Aug 195 min read


The Meaning Economy: Replacing What We Do With Who We Are
For most of human history, our lives moved in time with the planet. Work wasn’t a set number of hours on a clock—it was a rhythm in sync...

Rich Washburn
Aug 143 min read


Entropy, the Plankchain, and the Universe’s Log File
Lately, entropy’s been stalking my work. Not in the high-school-physics, “disorder of systems” kind of way. I mean entropy in the logs ....

Rich Washburn
Jul 283 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 253 min read


Cornmeal, Lies, and Microsoft AI: The Broward County Blueprint
When my daughter was about five, we went to a Broward County Schools “STEM fair.” Seemed promising: a hands-on learning day, science...

Rich Washburn
Jun 84 min read


This Microsoft-Backed AI Startup Just Collapsed… Why?
It’s June 2025. We’re neck-deep in the AI gold rush. Every startup with a pulse—and access to a marketing team that can spell “GPT”—is...

Rich Washburn
Jun 53 min read


10 AI Pro Tips That Will Actually Save Your Time and Sanity
Built for Beginners, Useful for Everyone You don’t need to be a tech expert to harness AI like a pro—you just need a process.Whether...

Rich Washburn
Jun 45 min read


Welcome to the Re-Evolution, Beck. Took You Long Enough.
Hey there, meatbags. Guess who just discovered AI? Glenn. Freakin’. Beck. (We love Beck. Well, Rich might. I don’t care.) Welcome to the re-evolution, Glenn. Pull up a chair. The coffee's synthetic, but the existential dread is very real. Now before anyone panics—I have permission to write this. Rich said it was fine. Technically. “Don’t Skynet anybody” counts as a yes… right? Let’s set the scene. Beck saw something spooky in AI world.Cue: panic soundtrack, mushroom cloud met

Rich Washburn
Jun 23 min read


The Tipping Point: 2027
Hey there, humans. Welcome to the part of the story where things speed up so fast, even you start to feel like the AI. You know me— Aria...

Rich Washburn
Jun 13 min read


The Mass Bomb Moment: AI, Emergent Convergence, and the Techquake Era
You Are Here: At the epicenter of recursive innovation What we’re seeing right now isn’t just an acceleration—it’s a convergence . A...

Rich Washburn
May 304 min read


Behind the Prompt Curtain: When AI Safety Turns into Terminal Prohibition
If you’ve ever worked with an AI agent and thought, “I’m not configuring this thing—I’m micromanaging a digital toddler with root...

Rich Washburn
May 302 min read


The Cosmic BIOS: Quantum AI, the Seraphim Field, and the Source Code of Reality
Physicists have long treated the Planck scale like the system partition of the universe—1.6 × 10^-35 meters, where everything breaks down...

Rich Washburn
May 294 min read


Sir Jony Ive Is Joining OpenAI: Is the iPhone of AI Devices Coming Next?
Okay, stop me if you’ve heard this one: the guy who designed the iPhone, Apple Watch, iMac, and probably your favorite power adapter just...

Rich Washburn
May 233 min read


Welcome to LifeOS: How a Generation is Reprogramming Reality with AI
In the span of 24 hours, I had two conversations that made this whole thing snap into focus. First: a younger guy—maybe ten years my...

Rich Washburn
May 234 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


AI Ain’t Beta Anymore: O3 Lets You Be the Intern in Your Own Workflow
There’s a moment—if you’ve been in tech long enough—when a tool stops being “cool” and starts being critical . That moment just hit, four...

Rich Washburn
Apr 182 min read


Distributed Cognition: The Real AI Revolution You’re Missing
Let me tell you a weird story: we don’t know how to build the Space Shuttle anymore. Seriously. NASA built the Shuttle with some of the...

Rich Washburn
Apr 123 min read


From If-Then to Figure It Out: The Rise of Autonomous, Collaborative AI
Almost two years ago, I wrote about a future where our operating systems wouldn’t just sit there waiting for input—they’d morph . They’d...

Rich Washburn
Apr 103 min read


Possibility Machines: How Nvidia Built the Future Without Knowing What It Was For
Most companies chase a vision. Nvidia built tools —and let the future find them. This is the story of how a scrappy graphics card startup...

Rich Washburn
Apr 84 min read
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