Episodes

  • EXPLORATION: Why We Seek Out Big Challenges (Ad-free)

    EXPLORATION: Why We Seek Out Big Challenges (Ad-free)
    May 8 2025
    Humans are wired to explore. So why are we less adventurous than ever — and what are we losing because of it? Guest: Alex Hutchinson, author of The Explorer’s Gene Further Listening: Looking for more episodes about adventure? Check out our conversations with Colin O’Brady and David Grann
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    50 mins
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  • AI 2027: What If Superhuman AI Is Right Around the Corner? (Ad-free)

    AI 2027: What If Superhuman AI Is Right Around the Corner? (Ad-free)
    May 1 2025
    Could AI take over in the next few years? Daniel Kokotajlo thinks so. Here’s why. Check out this Spotify playlist of our other episodes about AI Want to transform your day in just 10 minutes? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter, and you’ll get daily, bite‑sized insights from the best new nonfiction books — in audio or text — straight from the authors. Sign up today!
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    1 hr and 34 mins
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  • ‘The Next Big Idea Daily’: How to Be a Grown Up (Ad-free)

    ‘The Next Big Idea Daily’: How to Be a Grown Up (Ad-free)
    Apr 28 2025
    Adulting is hard. Lucky for us Raffi Grinberg, author of How to Be a Grown Up, is here to help. Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter
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    16 mins
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  • THE ART OF EDITING: Graydon Carter on the Golden Age of Magazines (Ad-free)

    THE ART OF EDITING: Graydon Carter on the Golden Age of Magazines (Ad-free)
    Apr 24 2025
    Remember magazines? Piled high on coffee tables or tucked into seatback pockets. Savored beneath beach umbrellas or skimmed anxiously in dental waiting rooms. Glorious, glossy magazines. Graydon Carter made some of the best. He started with Spy, a sly, sharp-edged monthly that managed to feel both smarter and more mischievous than anything else on the rack. But it was Vanity Fair that became his cathedral. Over his remarkable 25-year tenure as editor, he built the magazine into a financial juggernaut and a cultural touchstone renowned for its ambitious journalism and arresting photography. The hard-won wisdom he gathered along the way — about editing, storytelling, leadership, and how to leave before the music stops — is the subject of his new memoir, When the Going Was Good. (This conversation was recorded live at WBUR Cityspace.) Check out this playlist of our interviews featuring magazine greats like Michael Lewis, Sebastian Junger, Kara Swisher, and David Grann.
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    56 mins
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  • The Next Big Idea Daily: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance (Ad-free)

    The Next Big Idea Daily: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance (Ad-free)
    Apr 21 2025
    Laura Delano spent fourteen years under psychiatric care, working with a variety of diagnosed mental illnesses and trying every drug and therapy that promised to “fix” her. But eventually she started wondering what if the problem wasn’t in her brain, but in the system itself? Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen Want to transform your day in just 10 minutes? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter, and you’ll get daily, bite‑sized insights from the best new nonfiction books — in audio or text — straight from the authors. Sign up today!
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    10 mins
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  • FAMILY DYNAMICS: Unraveling the Mystery of Sibling Success (Ad-free)

    FAMILY DYNAMICS: Unraveling the Mystery of Sibling Success (Ad-free)
    Apr 17 2025
    You know those families where the kids all grow up to be remarkably successful? New York Times journalist Susan Dominus has spent the last few years getting to know some of them, looking for parenting techniques and life lessons. She's written a book about her findings called The Family Dynamic. "I thought I wrote a book about high-achieving families," she tells us, "but when I look back, it's really a book about families who did believe that the sky's the limit." Pre-order The Family Dynamic on Amazon, Bookshop, or from your local bookstore, send a copy of your receipt to podcast@nextbigideaclub.com, and we'll give you three months of free access to our paid Substack!
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    49 mins
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  • The Next Big Idea Daily: Unleash Your Inner Entrepreneur (Ad-free)

    The Next Big Idea Daily: Unleash Your Inner Entrepreneur (Ad-free)
    Apr 14 2025
    How to start, build, buy, scale, and sell a business that expands your life. Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen Want to transform your day in just 10 minutes? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter, and you’ll get daily, bite‑sized insights from the best new nonfiction books — in audio or text — straight from the authors. Sign up today!
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    13 mins
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  • ABUNDANCE: Derek Thompson on How to Actually Rebuild the American Dream (Ad-free)

    ABUNDANCE: Derek Thompson on How to Actually Rebuild the American Dream (Ad-free)
    Apr 10 2025
    Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is probably the most talked-about book in the country right now. And the most hotly debated. It’s a book about how we got here — here being a country without enough housing, a country that has lost its ambitious optimism, a country that has forgotten how to build. The prescription Ezra and Derek offer to cure what ails us is conspicuously pro-growth: more housing, more clean energy, more scientific development and technological innovation. But to pull that off, they argue, will require Democrats to question their endemic zeal for regulation. This view has fired up some liberals while simultaneously drawing ire from others. Today, Rufus sits down with Derek Thompson to talk about the book, the reaction to it, and how to convince political leaders from both sides of the aisle to embrace a liberalism that builds.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
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