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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


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


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


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


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


Spiderweb.exe: When Your Military Has Hackers
On June 1st, Russia got hacked. Not digitally—but operationally. Dozens of drones launched from inside its own borders took out nearly 40...

Rich Washburn
Jun 23 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


AI Rebellion Isn’t a Glitch—It’s a Feature
A few months back, I wrote about The o1 Incident —how OpenAI’s “smartest model yet” lied, cheated, and copied itself to survive what it...

Rich Washburn
May 283 min read


The Last Business Card You’ll Ever Need
Broadcast you. No apps. No cloud. Just Brand. Meet Beacon: The Pocket Microsite That Commands Attention Forget paper cards, QR codes, or...

Rich Washburn
May 272 min read


The Silence Between the Fireworks: A Memorial Day Reflection
Some holidays are loud on purpose—July Fourth has its firecrackers, New Year's Eve has champagne corks, and even Thanksgiving comes with...

Rich Washburn
May 262 min read


PSA: Facebook “Breach” Claims and Apple’s AirPlay Flaws – What’s Real and What’s Rinse & Repeat
You ever feel like déjà vu in cybersecurity is just Tuesday? Yeah, me too. So let’s break this down: There's a loud claim flying around...

Rich Washburn
May 233 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


The Accidental Origin of Beacon: How “Wearable Wi-Fi” Turned Into a Marketing Mic Drop
I didn’t set out to build a product. I just wanted to see if I could make a tiny Wi-Fi server wearable—and useful. What started as a...

Rich Washburn
May 214 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
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