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Apple Just Blinked: Why Cupertino’s Pivot to AI Glasses Proves Meta Won the First Round
You can tell Apple isn’t being run by Steve Jobs anymore. This week, Bloomberg confirmed something that would’ve been unthinkable a...

Rich Washburn
Oct 54 min read


It’s On: The AI Arms Race Just Went Nuclear (Literally)
Take a breath. Now take another, deeper one. Because what just dropped in the last 72 hours isn’t just “big tech news” — it’s a...

Rich Washburn
Sep 234 min read


Farewell, Charlie Kirk: A Torch That Will Not Go Out
` Today was something America has never seen before. For the first time in our history, both the President and the Vice President showed...

Rich Washburn
Sep 222 min read


Justice for Charlie: Utah Prosecutors File Death Penalty Case Against Tyler Robinson
Utah County prosecutors have formally charged 22-year-old Tyler James Robinson with the capital murder of Charlie Kirk, marking a...

Rich Washburn
Sep 163 min read


A Candle Against the Dark
I’ve been thinking a lot about light lately. How fragile it feels. How easily it gets swallowed by the dark. Charlie Kirk’s assassination...

Rich Washburn
Sep 142 min read


Charlie Kirk Assassinated at Utah Valley University
I can’t believe I’m even typing this. Charlie Kirk is dead. Shot while talking to students at Utah Valley University this afternoon. I’ve...

Rich Washburn
Sep 101 min read


Civilization’s All-In Moment
Every once in a while, a moment comes that’s so big, so layered, so everywhere at once, that we don’t even realize how historic it is...

Rich Washburn
Sep 53 min read


The AI Boom Heard ’Round the World
I keep coming back to this: my whole life, I’ve heard people throw around the term “paradigm shift.” The internet was a paradigm shift....

Rich Washburn
Sep 54 min read


An Open Letter on America’s AI Moment
This week, something historic happened. Rivals sat shoulder to shoulder. Billions were pledged. Apple at $600B. Microsoft at $80B in data...

Rich Washburn
Sep 53 min read


Exhibit A: How Cracker Barrel Broke More Than a Logo
One week later, the memes are funny, the backlash is bigger than Bud Light, and the soul is still missing It’s been about a week since...

Rich Washburn
Aug 254 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 153 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


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


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


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


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


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


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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