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The Genius Act: Financial System 2.0?
Imagine trying to stream Netflix through dial-up. That’s basically how our financial system has been operating behind the scenes—slow,...

Rich Washburn
Aug 233 min read


The Consciousness Question: Why Today’s “No” Might Be Tomorrow’s “Maybe”
Every few months, I get asked the same question: “Is AI conscious?” For years, my answer was easy. No. Flat out. No hesitation. These...

Rich Washburn
Aug 233 min read


Meet NOVA: My New GPT-5 Workhorse (And a Gift for You)
If you’ve followed me for a while, you know about ARIA . What started years ago as a recursion experiment snowballed into a full-blown...

Rich Washburn
Aug 223 min read


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


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 52 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 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


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


PSA — Change Your Passwords, Turn On MFA, Move To Passkeys: 16 Billion Credentials Just Hit The Web
1. Why This Matters Imagine every lock on your house, office, and car dumped onto a public sidewalk with name-tags attached. That’s...

Rich Washburn
Jun 192 min read


I’m Jumping on a Podcast with My Friend Laurence Kaldor
So here’s something fun. I’ll be recording a show soon with my good friend Laurence Kaldor. He asked me to come on his podcast to talk...

Rich Washburn
Jun 182 min read


GPT-5 Release Imminent? Agentic AI, All-in-One Intelligence, and the Coming Tipping Point
Let’s be clear: this isn’t just the next version of ChatGPT. When GPT-5 drops, it’s going to feel a lot like the first time you used...

Rich Washburn
Jun 174 min read


Blip: The Cross-Platform AirDrop You Didn’t Know You Needed (Until Now)
So here’s the thing—I don’t really do product reviews. If I ever do, it’s usually accidental. Something slips into conversation like:...

Rich Washburn
Jun 172 min read


Breaking: Trump Enters the Chat! Trump Mobile: The MVNO for the Patriot in You
Let’s cut straight to it: Trump just launched a mobile phone service. It’s called Trump Mobile , and if your first question is, “Wait—is...

Rich Washburn
Jun 163 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 163 min read


Turns Out the Trojan Horse Was the Ultimate Human Exploit
I've been sitting here thinking about Trojan horses. Yep, the wooden kind from 3,000 years ago—but also the ones popping up today: drones...

Rich Washburn
Jun 133 min read


Breaching Reality: The Rise of Full-Spectrum Exploit Warfare
On June 12th, at 03:15 IRDT, Israel launched its largest-ever airstrike on Iran’s nuclear sites. But this wasn’t just another military...

Rich Washburn
Jun 132 min read


Ever Wish You Could Dump a Plunger Full of IQ Into an Employee’s Neck?
Now You Can—Just Not the Live Ones. This isn’t just a cool feature—it’s the fix we’ve all been waiting for. Yes, OpenAI added the...

Rich Washburn
Jun 122 min read
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