Affiliate Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy through them, Deep Dive AI may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. That helps support more travel experiments, questionable navigation choices, and the occasional emergency dessert stop. The Hill and Crown Candy: A St. Louis Food Trip With Pasta, Malts, and Mild Strategic Overconfidence Meta description: A Team Jellie St. Louis food trip through The Hill and Crown Candy Kitchen, with practical travel notes, old-school charm, Italian neighborhood flavor, and one very serious malt situation. Hero Image Placement: Add your best wide image from The Hill, Crown Candy, or the road between stops here. Some travel days are carefully planned. Others begin with a simple idea like, “Let’s go see The Hill,” and somehow end with you staring down a chocolate malt at Crown Candy like it has personally challenged your family name. This was one of those days. Our St. ...

Deep Dive AI • Retirement Escape Velocity Why Your Financial Advisor’s Whiteboard Number Is Probably a Lie The real retirement math is not about chasing one giant fear number. It is about knowing when your money starts doing the heavy lifting — and when “one more year” becomes a very expensive habit. Walk into a high-rise wealth management office and you can almost smell the routine before the marker hits the board. There is the tasteful furniture. The framed credentials. The quiet lighting. The faint scent of dry-erase marker and financial dread. Then comes the big moment: your advisor writes a massive retirement number on the whiteboard — usually $1.5 million , $2 million , or some other number large enough to make your lunch turn against you. And just like that, the room has a plot. You are “not quite there.” You need “a few more strong years.” You should “stay discipli...

Deep Dive AI • Retirement Math Without the Fog Machine The Retirement Numbers Your Advisor Hates: Why $250k and $800k Are the Only Milestones That Matter Forget the panic-inducing $2.5 million whiteboard number. The real story is escape velocity, fee drag, tax buckets, and the uncomfortable truth that time is the one asset nobody gets to rebalance. There is a certain kind of financial advice that arrives with a dry-erase marker, a blazer, and the emotional warmth of a printer jam. You know the scene. Somebody sketches a towering retirement number on a whiteboard — usually something like $2.5 million — and suddenly your perfectly reasonable Tuesday turns into a hostage negotiation with compound interest. The message is clear: keep working, keep saving, keep worrying, and for heaven’s sake, keep paying fees. The chart says freedom is still far away. Conveniently, the chart also sells...

Team Jellie / Deep Dive AI Local Tool Geo-B-roll Matcher Plan St. Louis B-roll from local photos, videos, timestamps, itinerary clues, and mapped travel stops. It turns a folder full of “wait, where was this again?” files into a cleaner editing plan. Open Geo-B-roll Matcher Fallback: Open Localhost The orange button works on Jason’s Windows machine after the Geo-B-roll protocol is installed. The fallback link only works if the local server is already running. What this tool does Geo-B-roll Matcher scans a local folder of St. Louis photos and videos, reads file timestamps, compares them to itinerary windows, and creates useful CSV files for organizing B-roll. It is a local planning helper, not a public uploader. Current test folder The current local source folder is: ...

Team Jellie Photo Drop Drop Your St. Louis Photos Here Food shots, bike rides, street signs, music moments, menus, weird little travel details, and anything that makes the trip feel alive. This is the official Team Jellie photo drop zone. Upload Photos to Google Drive Back to the Blog Important: Kellie needs Editor access to the Google Drive folder before she can upload. If the button opens but does not allow uploads, check the Drive sharing settings. 📸 Upload the good stuff Full-size photos are best. Blurry “we were moving and emotionally committed” photos are also accepted. 🚲 Trip details matter E-bikes, signs, menus, sidewalks, river views, live music, food plates, and oddball moments all help tell the story. 🎷 Blues, food, and travel This folder helps build Team Jellie blog ...