Who is Anthony Washington Sr.?

Anthony Washington Sr. is a U.S. Army and Maryland Army National Guard veteran, a coach and official of more than twenty years, and the founder of After Today, LLC. He builds leadership training, athletic recruiting education, and people-first AI systems for student-athletes, families, schools, and organizations. He is based in Pennsylvania and works primarily across Pennsylvania and Maryland.

What does Anthony Washington Sr. do?

He works in three connected areas: athletic recruiting education that gives student-athletes and families a repeatable daily process, leadership training for first-time supervisors and public-sector leaders, and people-first AI and workflow implementation for organizations. He also speaks and runs workshops for schools, teams, and districts.

What is athletic recruiting infrastructure?

Athletic recruiting infrastructure is the repeatable system a family or program uses to manage recruiting — film, academics, communication with coaches, eligibility tracking, and follow-up — instead of relying on exposure events and luck. Anthony teaches recruiting as infrastructure so progress comes from a daily practice rather than a seasonal scramble.

What does people-first AI implementation mean?

People-first AI implementation means adopting AI to improve the work without displacing or sidelining the people who do it. In practice that means starting from the actual workflow, keeping a human accountable for decisions, training staff on the tools they will use, and setting guardrails before scale — not buying software and hoping the team adapts.

Who are Anthony's programs designed for?

Student-athletes and their parents, high school and grassroots coaches, athletic programs, schools and districts, first-time supervisors, public-sector leaders, and organizations that want leadership training or help implementing AI without leaving employees behind.

Does Anthony Washington Sr. provide leadership training?

Yes. He trains first-time supervisors and team leads on the first ninety days, difficult conversations, accountability, and building trust, drawing on his military service, public-sector supervision, and coaching experience. Training is delivered as courses, workshops, and organizational consulting.

How can a school, district, or organization work with Anthony?

Schools, districts, and organizations can book speaking engagements and workshops, bring in leadership training for supervisors and staff, or engage him on recruiting support and AI and workflow implementation. Start on the contact page and say which of those you need.

How can I book Anthony Washington Sr. to speak?

Send an inquiry through the contact page with your event date, audience, format, and location. The speaking page lists topics, session formats, and the audiences he speaks to most often.

Where is Anthony Washington Sr. based?

He is based in Pennsylvania and works primarily across Pennsylvania and Maryland, with virtual sessions available beyond that area.

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The Inherent Fallacy of Automation

general-commentary · September 5, 2026

Automation can make a good process more efficient, but it can also make a bad process fail faster.

The Inherent Fallacy of Automation

The inherent fallacy is simple: We have confused making something faster with making it better.

Automation is powerful.

That is exactly why organizations should be careful with it.

Take a broken process and automate it.

Congratulations.

You now have a broken process that operates 24 hours a day.

Bad data moves faster.

Unnecessary emails send automatically.

Customers receive incorrect information instantly.

Employees inherit errors at scale.

A process that annoyed ten people manually can now annoy ten thousand people automatically.

Technology did its job perfectly.

The process was the problem.

That is why the first question should not be:

"Can we automate this?"

Ask:

"Should this process exist this way at all?"

Map it.

Remove unnecessary steps.

Determine where human judgment matters.

Fix the underlying process.

Then automate what deserves automation.

Automation is leverage.

Leverage does not decide whether something is intelligent.

It simply multiplies it.

Unc's Point

Automation multiplies whatever you give it, including stupidity.

The Question

If we removed the technology, would the underlying process still make sense?

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