Back in July of 2020, a man in the middle of the pandemic decided to launch a new podcast.

It would be a daily podcast that would cover, well, everything.

It was an ambitious project that everyone told him was crazy to do, but he pushed ahead and did it

anyhow.

Today, 16 months later, that podcast is celebrating its 500th episode.

Learn more about Everything Everywhere Daily.

On this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. It's been more than a year, 400 episodes to be exact, since I've done a show that gives a behind

the scenes look at the podcast and what goes into making it.

I figure a 500th episode was a good time to do an update and every 500 episodes would be a good

length of time to revisit the subject.

For those of you who don't know the backstory, I sold my home in 2007 to travel around the world

for a year or two, and then I just sort of never stopped.

I started a blog when I began traveling where I documented my trips around the world.

Over time the website became successful, but after that something happened where the online world began to change.

Social media became a bigger thing and people stopped going to blogs directly to follow people.

This was a huge change in the internet.

Instead of having a place online where people could go to hear from you, you had to go through a third-party company that filtered what

everyone saw. The result of this are the things you're probably familiar with,

click-bait, sensationalism, and outrage. In the world of travel where I was everything became about delivering what the algorithm wanted.

If you didn't do that, nobody would ever see what you created.

The end result was that everyone was and is writing the exact same thing. Moreover, I never started traveling to visit

hotels and to fly in airplanes. Those were necessary parts of traveling, but it

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