Rick Barretto

An open letter

Welcome! This site is a working archive of a career spent building things that had never existed — other than in my imagination — driven by a desire to create platforms and systems that help people lead happy, fulfilled lives.

Everything you’ll see here — the companies, the inventions, the press, the SkillDNA — came out of a simple belief that if you see a need and can create something that solves a problem before anyone else, build the platform that makes it possible, and let the uses invent themselves.

My hope is that some small piece of this life’s work is inspiring, interesting, or useful to you — that it sparks an idea, validates a hunch, or reminds you that you don’t need permission to build what you can already see.

Perhaps James Michener said it best:

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both.”

— Rick