Blog - Rolf Potts

Andrew McCarthy on the Proust Questionnaire (and Brat Pack legacy) 02.06.2020 ↓

Actor-writer Andrew McCarthy tackles questions from the classic "Proust Questionnaire"

How to balance creative success with business success: An open chat 26.05.2020 ↓

How to make a life through your art without selling your soul

How underground exploration is the perennial frontier of adventure travel 19.05.2020 ↓

Will Hunt, author of "Underground: A History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet," on the joys of subterranean travel

Honeymoon without her husband: Maggie Downs’ uncommon world journey 12.05.2020 ↓

How Maggie Downs quit her job and embarked on (her mother's) solo dream-trip

The win-win of being a mentor, with Cal Fussman and Alex Banayan 07.05.2020 ↓

How mentoring can enhance your career (with Cal Fussman and Alex Banayan)

Why a “Shelter in Place Film Festival” beats bingeing video right now 06.05.2020 ↓

How to make a "Shelter in Place Film Festival" (instead of bingeing video)

Using your travel skills to make quarantine life better: An open chat 05.05.2020 ↓

Rolf talks about "travel from home" strategies with TripScout founder Konrad Waliszewski

Reports from my travels in quarantine: A Deviate Season Two coda 28.04.2020 ↓

Rolf reflects on the future of travel, and what's in store for Deviate Season Three.

Life changing travel experiences, quarantine edition: Paris and Prague 23.04.2020 ↓

Life changing travel experiences: Quarantine recollections of Paris and Prague

How COVID-19 will transform the business of long-term world travel  21.04.2020 ↓

Thoughts on how the current pandemic will transform long-term travel.

What fear is, how it works, and how to manage it (with Eva Holland) 14.04.2020 ↓

Eva Holland on how fear works, and how to best manage it.

On losing one’s parents to COVID-19: A traveler-report addendum 07.04.2020 ↓

Travel writer Marco Ferrarese describes how the pandemic has affected his family back in Italy.

How COVID-19 will transform airports (and other pandemic considerations) 02.04.2020 ↓

Dr. JP Santiago on how the pandemic will transform air travel, and what the new "normal" will look like.

Why the way we discuss (and interpret information about) COVID-19 matters 31.03.2020 ↓

Dr. JP Santiago on how the way we talk about COVID-19 affects how we respond to it.

What it’s like to travel during COVID-19: Reports from around the world 26.03.2020 ↓

A collection of global reports on what it's like to travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How Nomadic Matt got COVID-19. Plus: Reports from stranded travelers 24.03.2020 ↓

Global reports on pandemic-age travel, including Matt Kepnes on contracting COVID-19.

How to make sense of health data in a time of pandemic (and beyond) 19.03.2020 ↓

Dr. JP Santiago on how to discern useful health info from nonsense in the time of COVID-19.

How to enhance your career by becoming a better public speaker and reader 17.03.2020 ↓

A TED Talk cheat sheet: Elena Passarello on how to share your expertise via public speaking.

On sabbaticals: How to take a career break without breaking your career 10.03.2020 ↓

Lifestyle coach Tara Quinn on how to take time off from work to travel.

Ari Shaffir and Rolf do a deep-dive on the finer points of indie travel 03.03.2020 ↓

Comedian Ari Shaffir and Rolf have an open-ended talk on joys and idiosyncrasies of independent travel.

Remembering Nirvana, and how music can frame experience (and memory) 27.02.2020 ↓

Rolf and novelist Aaron Hamburger talk about Nirvana, and how music can frame experience and memory

How music affects you when you’re young (or, the joys of Jane’s Addiction) 25.02.2020 ↓

Rolf and Tod Goldberg unpack their youthful fixation with the band Jane's Addiction

Life-changing travel experiences: China and Mongolia with my parents 18.02.2020 ↓

Life changing travel experiences: A journey in Asia with my mom and dad

Why dinosaurs matter (also: Rolf fact-checks the dino book he wrote at age 7) 11.02.2020 ↓

Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara fact-checks the dinosaur book Rolf wrote at age 7.

What Matt Green discovered by walking every single street in New York City 04.02.2020 ↓

Matt Green walked across America, then walked down every street in NYC. This is his story.