
I create every day.
I share what I learn.
I build in public...
so you don't have to figure it out alone.
Rick Montero
Closed doors to out loud
Fifteen years inside Canon, Scholastic, Accenture... building content strategies behind closed doors. I wasn't on the outside advising... I was in the room, managing the teams, defending the budget, shipping the campaigns.
Then I got laid off. Then again. Three times total. You build someone else's thing for years, and one morning you're just... out. Most of us have been there.
So I stopped building behind closed doors. Now I do it out loud... every day. The podcast, the threads, the AI experiments... it's all on the table. No gatekeeping. If you're done waiting for permission to start, you're in the right place.
What I'm building
What I believe

First-generation American. Costa Rican roots. Raised in Florida, based on Long Island. Most mornings start with Leia and Yoda pulling me down the block. Most nights end with something proofing on the counter and a new AI tool open on my phone. I don't know when the experiments became the routine... but here we are.
If you're into the same messy, in-progress kind of building... you'll fit right in.
Come along
for the ride
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