Patrick Pitre
Founder of Rapid Mastery. Musician, martial artist, technologist.
I'm endlessly curious about how people get good at things — and a bit of a health and fitness nut. If I'm driving, lifting, or out on the bike, there's a good chance I've got the latest podcast on training, sleep, or nutrition playing.
This is my corner of the internet: what I'm working on, where I came from, and a little of what I do when I'm not working.
Knowledge ≠ Progress.
Rapid Mastery is a science-backed framework for adults who keep hitting a ceiling — on guitar, in the gym, in a new language, on stage. I write about it every week.
I trained as a musician first — a bachelor's in music education and 40 years of classical guitar. Then technology pulled me in. I ran IT for an international logistics firm, managed software development at a large tech company, and served as CTO for a healthcare nonprofit, where we rebuilt nearly everything.
I earned an MBA focused on digital transformation, and for more than a decade I wrote official Microsoft certification exam questions. Teaching people what "competent" looks like turned out to be good training for Rapid Mastery.
I still advise organizations on IT and digital transformation through Athena IT Group.