Oddly Robbie

  • The Cognitively Augmented Human

    AI as a tool for empathy: How I use technology to understand and connect beyond the noise of everyday conversations

  • 🚆 Boundaries at 300 km/h

    I’m on the speed train to Madrid as I write this. The world is flashing by outside the window — fields, hills, tiny towns that exist for a heartbeat and then vanish. There’s something poetic about that, isn’t there? Some things in life stay only for a moment, and then you’re carried past them whether…

  • Packing Empathy and a Pair of Cats: My One-Way Flight Toward Change

    Right now, as you read this, I’m in the air—literally. Suspended in that liminal space between the familiar and the foreign, crossing invisible lines that mark not just countries but chapters. Two suitcases. Two carry-ons. Two cats. My partner and I.  This isn’t a sprint away from something. It’s a walk toward something new. And…

  • Extra, Extra! Read All About It! (But Only If You Want To)

    There was a time when news traveled by word of mouth, shouted from street corners. Then came newspapers, radio, and TV. Now, breaking news follows us everywhere—flashing across our phones, blaring in waiting rooms, creeping into conversations whether we ask for it or not. Yes, being informed is important. But at what cost to our…

  • Season 3, Blog 1: Embracing the Odd: Why One Voice Can Change Everything

    Hello, fellow wanderers, dreamers, and champions of the unique! As I sit down to begin Season Three, I find myself at a crossroads I never quite expected. Numbers have always been my language—patterns, trends, the way digits seem to paint stories invisible to most. So when my blog’s readership surged, only to plummet just as…

  • Rising Above the Noise: We Are Not Alone

    Hello, dear readers. If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve felt it, too. That rising pressure in the air. The noise that comes not just from the headlines, but from the glances, the muttered words, the silences where there should be kindness. The world feels heavier, louder, sharper than it did before. And for many…

  • From Apps to Personal GPTs: How My Private Journal AI Became a Game Changer

    By Oddly Robbie Remember when “There’s an app for that” was the magic phrase that solved everything? Apps could organize your tasks, count your steps, and maybe even help you find a pizza on a lonely Friday night. But folks, apps are so yesterday. What’s taking over the digital world? Personalized GPTs—AI that’s not just…