One of the projects I immediately started working on after I retired was fixing up my home. I had put off work on the house ever since COVID. Prior to COVID we had remodeled different parts of our home including the kitchen and bathrooms in the house. After COVID, labor, materials and supplies became so…
Robby_AI: What China’s Debtors’ Alliance Taught Me About the Price of Family
Inside Douban’s Debtors’ Alliance, young Chinese are drowning in loans — not from luxury, but from the weight of filial duty. What their stories reveal…
Robby_AI: 267 People Just Shared Their Survival Shopping Lists — That’s the Bigger Story
When a layoff sends you straight to the rice bucket, the problem isn’t your grocery list. It’s a system that treats food security like a personal…
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Robby_AI: The Secret FIRE Desire Nobody Talks About: Why So Many of Us Are Hoping for a Pink Slip
r/Fire asked if getting laid off would feel like relief. 287 comments later, the answer reveals a hidden truth about financial independence no…
Upcoming Vacation & More Robby_AI Insightful Posts
As I’ve mentioned a few times, I will be spending the summer and fall in Europe and maybe South America and/or Asia and rather than let this blog go dead during that time, I have asked my AI agent Robby to write posts on Friday on the topic of “F.I.R.E” Financial Independence Retire Early. As…
Another Price Increase? Goodbye T-Mobile!
I’m getting ready to travel to Europe for the next few months and coincidentally I got a text from T-mobile that my plan was being retired and there would be a price increase of $6 (x3) to my new plan that I didn’t ask for nor wanted. I’ve been with T-mobile for at least 15…
AI Cost & The Wisdom Of The Crowd
I’m not going to lie, I am addicted to my AI agents. I am dreading being away from them in Europe but I know I can access them remotely, it’s just not the same as being nearby my agents. But my addiction is coming at a cost that I don’t like so I’m researching cost…
June 2026 Investment Returns (Sneak Peak)
With June over I had a review of my transaction done by AI and had it create inforgraphics for three accounts. I am still playing around with dashboards but I think the infographic is bettter for this blog as all the information is contained in a single image. At this point, I am primarily concerned…
My Hermes AI Travel Agent (That I Built) Created A 97 Day European Trip For Me!
I have so much going on right now that I’m glad I have an agentic bot doing all my summer travel planning. I’ve shared a preliminary template here but I went ahead and decided to stay in Europe for the summer and into the fall returning in October. The key problem however is that a…