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The Pharaoh of PowerPoint: When Egos Build Pyramids Instead of Products
There’s something almost biblical about the way these guys operate.They don’t build companies anymore — they build temples to themselves. You’ve seen it: the aging executive who insists on running a “modern digital venture” entirely through local copies of Microsoft Word . No version control, no shared drives, no Google Docs, no transparency. It’s not about productivity — it’s about control.He treats the document like sacred scripture, locked in his desktop tomb where only he

Rich Washburn
Nov 16, 20253 min read
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The Fossil Fuel Mindset: How Ego, Meetings, and Fear Kill Modern Work
There are days when I leave a session feeling like we just cracked a new code for what’s possible. And then there are days like this . Yesterday was Alchemy at AI Speed —eight and a half hours of pure momentum. One client, one mission, one day. A full platform, born from nothing, live by dinner. That’s what it looks like when the spark hits oxygen. Today? Today was the opposite. Five months (actually five years ) into a project that should’ve taken five days . A team of smart

Rich Washburn
Nov 13, 20254 min read
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Meetings Are Dead. Execution Is the New Conversation.
Why I don’t meet — I build. If you’re looking to “schedule a meeting,” stop. I don’t do meetings. I do. And I don’t mean that like a tagline — I mean it literally. If I have an hour free, I’m not spending it talking about  doing something I could just… do. That’s not impatience; that’s what focus looks like in the age of AI. The work I do doesn’t start with discussion. It starts with motion. Meetings were invented for people who didn’t have the tools to execute in real time.

Rich Washburn
Nov 13, 20253 min read
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