The Next Big Idea Daily

By Next Big Idea Club

What if engaging with great ideas could become one of your daily habits? What if some of the best tips for living better and working smarter were served up with your morning coffee, a hit of motivatio... more

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October 31, 2025 How Everyday Communication Connects and Shapes Us
Five key insights from The Social Biome by Andy Merolla and Jeffrey Hall.
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19min
October 30, 2025 Why Does Everything Online Suck Now?
Cory Doctorow calls it “enshittification.” Here’s how we got here, and how we can make the internet not terrible again.
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15min
October 29, 2025 5 Lessons the Dying Can Teach Us About Living Well
We often live like our time is limitless. But what if those who are facing the limits of life are the ones who really grasp what it’s all about? Diane Button has worked as a death doula for two decades, sitting beside people at the end of life and learning from their profound insights.
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17min
October 28, 2025 How to Stop Negative Self-Talk from Running Your Team
Every leader knows that as tough as it can be to manage others, the real challenge is managing yourself — your insecurities, your bad habits, your distracted thoughts. That’s why corporate consultants Suzy Burke, Ryan Berman, and Rhett Power have written a new book called Headamentals: How Leaders Can Crack Negative Self-Talk that helps you learn how to lead, starting with that most important workplace of all — the one inside your head.
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15min
October 27, 2025 Stop Trying to Optimize Your Life
Not every decision can be reduced to data. In Choose Wisely: Rationality, Ethics, and the Art of Decision-Making, Barry Schwartz and Richard Schuldenfrei argue that wisdom begins where the algorithm ends.
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18min
October 24, 2025 Are You Cult Curious?
Amanda Montell shares five key insights from her 2021 book Cultish.
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14min
October 23, 2025 If the Economy’s So Good, Why Do We All Feel So Broke?
The problem isn’t you: it’s the data. Gene Ludwig reveals how America’s economic scorecards mask widespread struggle.
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15min
October 22, 2025 Digital Exhaustion: How to Reclaim Your Energy in an Always-On World
Technology was supposed to make life easier. Instead, it’s draining our attention and creativity. Paul Leonardi is here to help you recharge.

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23min
October 21, 2025 Your Attention Is Being Hijacked. Here’s How to Take It Back.
Does this sound familiar: You sit down to do some real focused work, and within minutes you’ve checked your phone, opened three browser tabs, and mentally planned your lunch — all without realizing it. Our attention doesn’t just wander anymore. It’s being quietly, relentlessly pulled apart by a world designed to fragment it, and most of us have forgotten what real focus even feels like. Zelana Montminy is a behavioral scientist who advises Fortune 500 companies and her new book is called Finding Focus: OwnYour Attention in an Age of Distraction.
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13min
October 20, 2025 How to Build a Company That Lasts 100 Years
How do you build a company that lasts? It’s certainly not easy. About half of all small businesses fail within five years, and even large companies struggle to make it to the decade mark. So how do some businesses last for generations, even centuries? According to Eric Becker (The Long Game), founder and chairman of the wealth management firm Cresset, those companies, which he calls Centurions, have figured out how to play the long game.
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14min

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