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Rolf Potts
Personal blog · rolfpotts.comculturewriting
Rolf Potts's personal blog at rolfpotts.com covers culture and writing. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rolf Potts's essays on travel and perception, such as his piece on Walker Percy's "The Loss of the Creature" and "Storming the Beach". One commenter credits his work, including Vagabonding, with inspiring them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /storming-the-beach/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-03
- /walker-percys-loss-creature/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-23
What Hacker News says?
You might find this reading interesting: https://rolfpotts.com/walker-percys-loss-creature/ In a nutshell, you can intentionally choose to prevent others’ perception of a place from spoiling your own. One step further, you can even use their perception to enhance your own experience. You’re standing in a place that your extremely distant ancestors and cousins once stood, in a place where your nieces and nephews and…
Comment linking /walker-percys-loss-creature/
on “Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place”What a great resource, your website. While he doesn't have much in common with Chris, I was inspired at an identity level when I first read Rolf Potts' Vagabonding as a teen and other pieces of his work like https://rolfpotts.com/storming-the-beach/ .
Comment linking /storming-the-beach/
on “'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness”Relevant essay on whether "getting it" matters, from Walker Percy, in "The Loss of the Creature": https://rolfpotts.com/walker-percys-loss-creature/
Comment linking /walker-percys-loss-creature/
on “On getting poetry”The link to "Storming 'The Beach'" in the article leads to nowhere, but the feature can be found on Rolf's own page at https://rolfpotts.com/storming-the-beach/
Comment linking /storming-the-beach/
on “The art of long-term world travel”
