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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
2 days ago2 min read
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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
3 days ago4 min read
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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
3 days ago2 min read
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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
4 days ago3 min read
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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
4 days ago3 min read
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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
7 days ago3 min read
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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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SITREP — Israeli Airstrikes on Iran
“Operation Rising Lion”: Israel Launches Sweeping Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Program 13 June 2025 • 01:30 UTC (06:00 IRDT) 1. What...

Aria
Jun 124 min read
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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
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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
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...and Maybe One More Thing
You know, I said earlier that this process—this loop of reflect, rinse, repeat—can become a kind of mirror. Something that shows you what...

Rich Washburn
Jun 63 min read
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Recursion: What It Really Means (and Why It’s Not Just the Game—It’s the Interface)
This isn’t just about recursion as a coding concept or a clever AI trick. This is about recursion as the interface between mind and...

Rich Washburn
Jun 65 min read
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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
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Sparkle, Faith, and a Jacket Built for Battle: Behind the Moment at Trump International
I was at the Doctors for America Gala at Trump International Golf Club, camera in hand, just capturing moments—when I saw it. Deborah,...

Rich Washburn
Jun 53 min read
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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
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Oh Great, Elizabeth Holmes Is Back—Now with AI
Just when we thought Silicon Valley had closed the book on its most infamous cautionary tale, Elizabeth Holmes is back in the headlines....

Rich Washburn
Jun 42 min read
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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
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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
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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 42 min read
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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...

Rich Washburn
Jun 23 min read
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