Happy Sunday! I've been out of pocket for the last 2 weeks. I traveled out West to Nevada, Arizona, and Utah for my first experience in the desert. What an unbelievable environment! It's so dangerous and it blows my mind to think about the people who first lived there and pioneered that land. What courage that would have taken! I went to the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park and lots of little places in between. Highly recommend you take a trip to both of those places.

Alrighty on to the Stir!

The World of Design

Someone has recreated Photoshop feature for feature and it's free! And you use it in the browser. Check it out = https://www.photopea.com. Pretty cool if you ever wanted to dabble in Photoshop but didn't want to pay for it. Now you can play around for free!

The World of Airbnb

I hate using Airbnb. You filter for places by price, think you've found a deal only to get to check out to find out that the price per night has gone up by $100. So frustrating! Cleaning fee! Admin fee! Whatever! It's ridiculous and wish they just included all that crap in their "price per night" map search. It's deceiving and scammy. I came across this tweetwhere someone showed a screenshot of the price difference between their map and checkout and the price went from $126/night to $266/night. Then this guy quote tweeted and wrote "Airbnb is a cleaning company disguised as a hospitality company." And I think that's 100% accurate. Airbnb is ripe for being disrupted and driven out of business if someone created an equivalent but with more transparency on pricing.

The World of Friendship

You can only have so many close friends. How many deep connections do you think you can keep up with? According to research by Robin Dunbar, the average number of "Friends" appears to be 150 and that includes family and extended family too. Generally people with huge families have less friends because their families takes up space for friends. It's known as "Dunbar's Number" and it's less about the absolute number and more like a series of concentric circles, each standing for progressively more deep kinds of relationships.

The World of Proverbs

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” ― G.K. Chesterton

End Note

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Brennen