Episodios

  • ‘The Next Big Idea Daily’: How to Be a Grown Up

    ‘The Next Big Idea Daily’: How to Be a Grown Up
    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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    18 m
  • THE ART OF EDITING: Graydon Carter on the Golden Age of Magazines

    THE ART OF EDITING: Graydon Carter on the Golden Age of Magazines
    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.
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    1 h
  • FAMILY DYNAMICS: Unraveling the Mystery of Sibling Success

    FAMILY DYNAMICS: Unraveling the Mystery of Sibling Success
    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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    53 m
  • ABUNDANCE: Derek Thompson on Rebuilding the American Dream

    ABUNDANCE: Derek Thompson on Rebuilding the American Dream
    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 h y 13 m
  • WHY GIVERS WIN: Adam Grant Revisits 'Give and Take'

    WHY GIVERS WIN: Adam Grant Revisits 'Give and Take'
    Apr 3 2025
    We’re often told that success comes down to talent, hard work, and luck. But Adam Grant's research suggests that view is missing something crucial. In today’s installment of Next Big Idea Classics, Adam revisits his 2013 bestseller “Give and Take,” explaining how our interactions with others determine who thrives and who doesn’t. 💿 For Adam’s previous appearances on the show, click here 🎙️ And check out our classic interviews with Daniel Pink, Kim Scott, and James Clear
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    1 h y 9 m
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