Mark Stiltner

Overview

Mark Stiltner is the Rapid Senior Director of Content and Web Marketing interviewed by Sam in EP 39: Why the Future of AI Belongs to Divergent Thinkers on Data Science With Sam.

Current Profile

The episode presents Mark as a marketing leader and creator who uses ADHD as a lens for understanding AI-enabled work. His central claim is not that AI simply makes him faster, but that it helps translate nonlinear cognition into finished outputs by preserving context, giving immediate feedback, and reducing friction between idea and execution.

Mark also uses side projects as AI learning labs. His tabletop role-playing publishing work, including fully illustrated books and Solo AI RPGs, lets him test AI workflows outside his regular job and then bring lessons back into marketing practice.

Key Characteristics

• Senior content and web marketing leader at Rapid.
• Source-scoped public speaker on ADHD, neurodiversity, and AI-assisted work.
• Early ChatGPT experimenter who first explored AI through tabletop role-playing and later applied it to writing and work projects.
• Advocate for hands-on AI learning through passion projects rather than abstract skill anxiety.
• Creator using AI-assisted publishing and interactive fiction as practical workflow experiments.

Evidence

• Role and context: EP 39: Why the Future of AI Belongs to Divergent Thinkers introduces Mark as Senior Director of Content and Web Marketing at Rapid.
• ADHD and AI workflow: EP 39: Why the Future of AI Belongs to Divergent Thinkers has Mark describe AI as helping with context, execution, hyperfocus, and nonlinear thinking.
• Early experimentation: EP 39: Why the Future of AI Belongs to Divergent Thinkers says Mark began experimenting with ChatGPT during the late-2022 DaVinci/playground period through a tabletop role-playing group.
• Publishing lab: EP 39: Why the Future of AI Belongs to Divergent Thinkers says Mark started a side publishing company for tabletop role-playing material and had published more than 50 books.
• Advice: EP 39: Why the Future of AI Belongs to Divergent Thinkers has Mark advise ADHD listeners entering AI careers to start building with AI on a passion project.

Qualifications

The page is source-scoped to the episode. The transcript does not independently verify Mark’s publishing totals, bestseller status, or Rapid responsibilities beyond the interview introduction.

What Changed

• Created Mark Stiltner as the source-scoped guest for Data Science With Sam EP39.

Relationships

• Rapid - employer named in the episode.
• Data Science With Sam - podcast context.
• Sam (Data Science With Sam) - interviewer who frames the neurodiversity and AI discussion.
• Neurodivergent AI Augmentation - concept Mark grounds through first-person ADHD experience.
• ADHD Hyperfocus AI Workflow - workflow pattern Mark describes around AI and sustained focus.
• Solo AI RPGs - creative product format Mark is developing and selling.
• ChatGPT - tool Mark began using in early AI experiments and later work.