True stories from building FIXnotes, and the life around it.https://robbiemax.com/https://robbiemax.com/journal/2020-11-four-ideals/https://robbiemax.com/journal/2020-11-four-ideals/What I read out on our first members' call, and what's changed since.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robbiemax.com/journal/2018-standing-in-sewage/https://robbiemax.com/journal/2018-standing-in-sewage/My dad's skills, my skills, and the basement that finally made the difference obvious.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robbiemax.com/journal/2018-a-total-bust/https://robbiemax.com/journal/2018-a-total-bust/A 2,000-loan bank tape, a pile of credit reports on order, and the servicing notes nobody had read.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robbiemax.com/journal/2017-the-first-product-was-a-dud/https://robbiemax.com/journal/2017-the-first-product-was-a-dud/I quit, filed an LLC, took the first product to a conference and it was a dud. The side offer became the business.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robbiemax.com/journal/2015-begging-city-hall-for-mercy/https://robbiemax.com/journal/2015-begging-city-hall-for-mercy/A duplex an hour from home, a stack of fines we didn't know we owed, and the day we drove in to apologize.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robbiemax.com/journal/2011-i-didnt-know-what-i-was-looking-at/https://robbiemax.com/journal/2011-i-didnt-know-what-i-was-looking-at/How a Monday night class turned into my first job in mortgage notes, and the folder that made me feel lost.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robbiemax.com/journal/2026-02-a-quiet-inheritance/https://robbiemax.com/journal/2026-02-a-quiet-inheritance/Quaker roots and the conscience that endures.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robbiemax.com/journal/2025-06-35-things/https://robbiemax.com/journal/2025-06-35-things/One idea for each year, written down the week I turned 35.Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://robbiemax.com/journal/2024-10-blueberry/https://robbiemax.com/journal/2024-10-blueberry/A kitten taken off our front lawn, and the weekend we spent getting him back.Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://robbiemax.com/journal/2023-10-saturday-october-28th/https://robbiemax.com/journal/2023-10-saturday-october-28th/Our first Halloween parade costume contest, from inside a grape. First sent to my newsletter on October 31, 2023.Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://robbiemax.com/journal/2017-01-week-one-on-my-own/https://robbiemax.com/journal/2017-01-week-one-on-my-own/A welcome video I couldn't finish, and business cards I couldn't stop making. Written my first week as a full-time entrepreneur.Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT