Tomorrow's World with Rolf Potts
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Rolf Potts is a travel writer best known for Vagabonding, the book that helped define long-term travel as a mindset rather than a gap year. Born in Kansas, he has spent more than two decades writing across more than 60 countries for outlets including The New Yorker, National Geographic and The New York Times.
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What we talked about.
Rolf Potts talks about travel, writing, journaling and the old technologies that still shape a thoughtful life. This is a conversation about paper, music, long journeys, slow attention and why the process of noticing the world may matter more than the perfect record of where you have been.
This episode explores:
- How do you turn travel from a temporary escape into a life and a body of work?
- Why is journaling useful even if nobody else ever reads it?
- Can paper still be one of the most important information technologies we have?
- How does a writer decide what belongs in a notebook and what belongs in a book?
- What do we lose when every fact is instantly available?
- How does travel change as you get older and build a different kind of home?