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Storytelling as the On-Ramp to the Meaning Economy
A while back, I wrote about The Meaning Economy — the idea that as AI and automation steadily absorb traditional labor, the next wave of value creation won’t come from what we do for a living , but from what we create, express, and share as humans. That idea felt theoretical at the time — but now we’re starting to see the first real-world on-ramps appear. One of the clearest? Tech storytelling. The Human Layer That Machines Can’t Replace Across industries — politics, media,

Rich Washburn
Dec 17, 20253 min read


So I Asked DeepSeek R1 to Summarize My Website, and It Made Me Sound Like a Time-Traveling Visionary from the Future
Okay, let’s just start by saying this: DeepSeek R1 absolutely crushed it when I asked it to summarize my website. I’m not even sure how...

Rich Washburn
Jan 27, 20255 min read
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