Introducing: The Next Big Idea Daily
Great news, folks. We just launched a new podcast! It's called The Next Big Idea Daily. Tune in Monday through Friday for quick master classes in better, smarter living with help from thinkers like Ad...
30 Jan 202310min
PLEASURE: An Epicurean Guide to the Good Life
The Greek philosopher Epicurus made a rather bold claim over two thousand years ago. The key to life, he said, was simple: pursue pleasure and avoid pain. Around this maxim he developed a school of ph...
26 Jan 20231h 13min
POWER FAILURE: What Happened to GE? (with Malcolm Gladwell & William Cohan)
General Electric used to be the most valuable company in the world; now it's practically irrelevant. What happened? Today on the show, we're going to find answers. And to help, we're turning to two wr...
19 Jan 202356min
DIET: The New Science of Healthy Eating
“Our food decisions,” writes Dr. Tim Spector in his new book, Food for Life, “are the single most important modifiable factor in preventing common diseases and staying healthy.” But how do we know we’...
12 Jan 202359min
How to Develop Your Passions and Avoid Burnout (with Atul Gawande and Adam Grant)
Renowned surgeon Atul Gawande spends his days in the operating theater and his nights writing articles for The New Yorker and bestselling books like Being Mortal. Today on the show, he tells our curat...
5 Jan 202345min
FEELINGS: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
Today, in a special bonus episode, we bring you a live conversation between Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy, authors of “No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work,” and our c...
29 Des 20221h
SAPIENS: Yuval Noah Harari on Our Past, Present, and Future
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and philosopher whose books — "Sapiens," "Homo Deus," "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," and most recently "Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World" — have sold...
22 Des 20221h 23min
ANALOG: Let’s Build a More Human World
“The future is digital,” they said. Then the pandemic came along and forced that digital future on us. We traded offices for Zooms, gyms for Pelotons, schools for YouTube videos, restaurants for takeo...
15 Des 202253min
