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- Ep 99 - How To Lead When Everyone Has AI: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI is making knowledge cheap. That’s the uncomfortable truth underneath the hype and the hopeful invitation underneath the fear. When everyone - Superstars to Sandwiches: Inside the Opening of Antonelli's Deli
This month, Eat It, Virginia sits down with Taylor Antonelli of Superstars Pizza and baker/musician Giustino Riccio to get the full story behind their new resta - Ep 98 - Frontline AI Leadership: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI isn’t only transforming spreadsheets and slide decks. The biggest change is showing up where work is physical, immediate, and deeply human: - Ep 97 - The Middle Manager: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail Middle managers have been “written off” for years, especially whenever a new wave of technology promises faster communication and smarter decis - Solid Ground, Not Shifting Sand: Leading Through AI
Aaron Baker never got a memo saying his job had changed. Between co-chairing the rvatech/Data + AI Summit and fielding a steady stream of "who should we put on - Ep 96 - Workflow Redesign: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail Most teams don’t fail with AI because they picked the wrong software. They fail because they drop powerful AI tools into workflows that were al - Ep 95 - AI Literacy For Leaders: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI is moving into every corner of work, and it’s creating a quiet trap for leaders: the belief that we have to become deeply technical before w - Ep 94 - Building Trust With Responsible AI: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail Want to join a community of AI learners and enthusiasts? AI Ready RVA is leading the conversation and is rapidly rising as a hub for AI in the - Why Your Best People Aren't Working as Hard as You Think with Bryan Powell
Bryan Powell was inside Wells Fargo when the fraud broke, watching leaders point to a word painted across the cafeteria wall that turned out to mean nothing. Br - Ep 93 - AI Augmentation For Leaders: Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI is moving into every workflow, but most teams are still treating it like a faster search bar. We take a different stance: the winners aren’t - Excited About Conflict: What an ER Nurse Learned About Hard Conversations with Adrianna Muñoz
Adrianna Muñoz's conflict story starts on the floor of a supply closet, a few shifts off orientation in an inner city Chicago ER. A patient started yelling the - Ep 92 - Clarity Before Certainty: Transformational Leadership In The AI Age by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI is moving into your workplace whether leadership feels ready or not, and that reality creates a dangerous gap: employees are already experim - The Line Every Leader Should Never Believe - Lasso Leadership S4E2
Coach Chilton hands Ted a dossier on every player on his first day. She never asked to build one. She did it anyway, because process and detail are how she lead - Ep 91 - How Artificial Intelligence Helps You Learn Faster And Build Better Habits by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI headlines love extremes: total automation or sci-fi superintelligence. We take a different angle and ask a more personal, more practical que - Melissa Stallard’s Chez Nous Story
How does someone leave a successful insurance career at 50 to open one of Richmond’s most beloved wine bars? On this episode of Eat It, Virginia, Scott Wi - You Never See Your Own Impact: Lasso Leadership from Season 4.1
Leadership is built on consistency, presence, and the small actions you do when no one’s watching. Your true impact often lives in the details you repeat every - Ep 90 - Loop Engineering: When Intelligence Gets Cheap, What Still Wins? by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail Prompt tricks used to feel like the whole game. Now AI coding agents can run commands, inspect logs, edit multiple files, and stay on task for - Ep 89 - Making the Invisible Visible: Enterprise AI Accountability w/ Ben Hawkins by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI doesn’t fail in enterprises because the model isn’t impressive. It fails because nobody can answer the uncomfortable questions: who owns the - Ep 88 - Debugging Human Communication w/ Andrea Goulet by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail The biggest risk in an AI-powered organization isn’t a lack of intelligence, it’s a lack of shared meaning. As tools get faster and output gets - Ep 87 - The AI Native Organization by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail Software is slipping from “hard to produce” to “easy to generate,” and that single change forces a rethink of how we build companies, teams, an - Ep 86 - Staying Competitive: Build A Resilient Engineering Career With AI by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail If you’re an engineer staring at AI code generation and wondering where you fit, the uncomfortable truth is also the freeing one: trying to “ou - Ep 85 - Leverage Outruns Wisdom: Systems Leadership In The AI Era by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI is quietly rewriting the org chart, and it’s not because everyone suddenly works faster. The real shift is structural: teams are becoming bl - Ep 84 - The Philosophical Shift: As Intelligence Becomes Cheap, Evaluation Becomes Everything by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI can generate code, analysis, and recommendations faster than any team in history, but there’s a catch: verification doesn’t scale the same w - Ep 83 - Up the Stack: The Five Layers Of The Future Software Engineer by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI can write code faster than any team on earth, so why does it still feel like shipping software is hard? The uncomfortable answer is that spe - Ep 82 - A Devs Transformation: New Values Emerge As Code Becomes Cheap by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail The scariest part of AI in software is not that it writes code. It is that it changes what “being an engineer” even means. When generative AI c - The 2nd Mistake Kills You: Intentionality, Resilience, and Year 1 at VCU with Phil Martelli, Jr. by Billy Briefman
Phil Martelli Jr. just finished his first year as head men's basketball coach at VCU. The team won the Atlantic 10, made the NCAA tournament, and beat North Car - Ep 81 - AI Needs Better Data: Agentic AI Foundations at Scale by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI agents are showing up everywhere, but most enterprises are discovering a frustrating truth: getting an agent to “work” in a demo is easy, ge - Ep 80 - The Competitive Reset: AI Creates New Winners By Moving Value by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI is everywhere right now: copilots, automated workflows, faster analytics, better dashboards. And yet a lot of leaders still feel the same un - Ep 79 - Techno Stress: You Are Now A Permanent Beginner by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail The biggest problem with modern technology is not that it moves fast, it’s that it makes us feel like we’re failing to keep up. We keep adding - Ep 78 - Learn By Building: From Strategy Decks To Working Agents w/ Matt Bartles by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail “We’ll learn AI once we understand it” sounds responsible, but it’s one of the fastest ways to fall behind. We sit down with Matt to argue for - Ep 77 - The Ralph Loop: How Iteration Turns AI Into A Reliable Work System by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail Most teams are still using AI like a vending machine: type a prompt, hope for the right answer, then waste time nudging it closer. We take a di - Ep 76 - The BMAD Method For Building Reliable Agentic Systems by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI can write code on demand now, but that doesn’t mean we’re building better software. When we treat AI like a chat window with a long memory, - Ep 75 - Where Human Judgment Belongs Throughout A Multi-Agent Workflow by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail Multi-agent AI feels like a breakthrough right up until you realize the real problem isn’t intelligence anymore, it’s coordination. When planni - Ep 74 - Agentic Workflows: Did The Job Actually Get Done? by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail An AI agent that confidently says “done” can still be the most expensive kind of wrong. We start with a simple test of reality: when an agent u - Ep 73 - The AI Race: Winner Takes All by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail The AI race is quietly changing shape, and if you’re still tracking it like a scoreboard of model releases, you’re going to miss the real winne - Food Truck to Faith-Driven Restaurant: Auntie Ning's Brings Filipino Food to Richmond by Billy Briefman
Join Scott Wise and Robey Martin as they sit down with Fred Enriquez, co-owner of Auntie Ning's Filipino restaurant in Richmond, Virginia. Fred shares how his c - Ep 72 - The Future of Work: Designing AI-Augmented Roles w/ Vivek Gupta by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI is moving so fast that “keeping up” can start to feel like a losing game and that speed is exactly what’s reshaping the future of work. We s - Ep 71 - Furiously Curious: How To Stay Relevant As AI Speeds Up Work w/ Caleb Snow by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail The career fear around AI is real, but Caleb Snow flips the frame: the bigger threat is standing still while everything else accelerates. Caleb - Ep 70 - The Rise Of AI Runtimes: Google's Agent Development Kit by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail AI is starting to feel less like a feature you bolt onto a product and more like a system you have to run. That shift is easy to miss until you - Ep 69 - Future of Work: When Intelligence Lives In Your Tools by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail What if the real shift in the future of work isn’t learning to code, but learning to supervise? We dig into a new operating model where product - From Status Quo to Growth: Will Melton on AI, Entrepreneurship, and Building What Richmond Needs by Billy Briefman
Will didn't set out to become Richmond's leading voice on artificial intelligence. A chance encounter during a Chamber RVA trip to DC, a conversation with Senat - Herbie Abernethy and Josh Novicki's rockin' Richmond restaurants by Billy Briefman
On this month's episode of Eat It, Virginia, hosts Scott Wise and Robey Martin sit down with Herbie Abernethy and Josh Novicki, the Richmond duo behind three of - Ep 67 - RAG Done Right: Measure The Evidence Or Drift Into Error by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a brilliant-sounding AI gives the wrong answer with total confidence? We dig into the quiet culprit behind so many “LLM failu - Ep 66 - From Prompts To Process: Building Trustworthy AI Workflows w/ Tianzhen Lin by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail When intelligence is everywhere but correctness is scarce, how do we lead without cutting corners? We sit down with Tianzhen (Tangent) Lin—vete - Ep 65 - LLM-as-a-Judge: Evaluations That Scale by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail What if your AI had a never-tired reviewer that caught quiet errors before they reached customers? We dive into LLM-as-judge—the simple but pow - Ep 64 - Intelligence, Accountability, And You: From AI Slop to Sound Judgement by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail The pace of AI can feel exhilarating until a polished report collapses under scrutiny and your team spends hours repairing “work slop.” We’re s - Secrets Behind Richmond’s Most Buzzed-About Bagels – Yero Rudzinskas of Baltik’s Bagel by Billy Briefman
Baltik’s Bagel founder Yero Rudzinskas shares his journey from Michelin-starred kitchens and high finance to building one of Richmond’s most buzzed- - Ep 63 - Human In The Loop: Designing The Boundary Between Machines And Humans by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail The moment an AI agent can issue refunds or change accounts, the conversation shifts from capability to responsibility. We dig into how to desi - Building a Studio on Relationships: Mack Garrison on Community, Creativity, and the 84% Rule by Billy Briefman
Mack Garrison didn't plan to become an entrepreneur. He decided the day before launching Dash Studio. What started as a single CNN project with his co-worker tu - Ep 62 - Reconfiguring Work: A Playbook For Agentic AI Adoption by Billy Briefman
Send us Fan Mail When AI stops acting like a tool and starts acting like a teammate, the rules of work change. We explore what agentic AI really means for teams