The Next Big Idea Club Book of the Day Newsletter
Next Big Idea, Ami Fields-Meyer, Ian Bogost, Jia Jiang, Cate Hall, Michael Kovnat, Steve Kamb, Panio Gianopoulos, Tom Levenson, Ryan Hawk, Karen Korellis ReutherTransform your day in 10 minutes. Enjoy daily, bite‑sized insights from breakthrough nonfiction books—audio or text—straight from the authors. Trusted by 94K+ learners, our editors choose only the books that matter.
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Inside the Billionaire Takeover of America
The Big Idea: America’s richest people don’t need to win elections to wield political power. When extreme wealth buys access to presidents, foreign dictators, media platforms, and even foreign policy, democracy starts giving way to somethin...
Your Wellbeing Is Being Shaped by People You've Never Met
The Big Idea: Lasting wellbeing doesn’t come from major life overhauls. It comes from small, specific, evidence-based habits practiced consistently, and from staying connected to the people around you.
Why It Matters: Self-improvement cult...
The Nazis Gave This Fake Spy an Iron Cross. Your Brain Runs the Same Play.
The Big Idea: Your beliefs aren’t built from evidence. They’re built from feelings, then defended with logic later.
Why It Matters: In order to convince yourself or others of something, facts aren't enough. Belief has to feel right first....
Magicians Have Used This One Trick on You for Centuries
The Big Idea: A good question does more work than a good answer. It directs attention, sparks learning, and builds trust between people.
Why It Matters: Search engines and AI now answer instantly, so fewer questions ever reach an actual pe...
Here Come the Robots
This Week on the Next Big Idea Podcast
Are robots about to change everything?
We’ve spent the last few years watching AI transform the digital world. Now it’s coming for the physical one.
Humanoid robots are leaving the lab and en...
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I co-founded Nerve, Babble, and the Next Big Idea Club. I host the NBI podcast and work with a team of wonderful people to deliver you a daily offering of new ideas in audio and text formats.
NYT bestselling author of ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR | Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, former Senior Policy Advisor to the Vice President of the United States | amifieldsmeyer.com
Writer and game designer. Director of Film & Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Contributing Writer at The Atlantic.
I am the author of Rejection Proof and Easy Discipline, an award-winning speaker with a popular TED talk, the owner of Rejection Therapy. I write about how to win big, have fun, and love yourself.
searching for the hidden doors in the walls of life
Co-founder, Next Big Idea Club
Bestselling author of "How To Try Again.” Fail compassionately - tread water - try again differently. Sign up for my newsletter to read the first chapter now!
Fiction writer & book editor & lover of ampersands
I profess science writing at MIT. My book A Pox on Fools arrives in May. It's a polemical history of the anti-vax movement, tracing the roots of RFK Jr.'s assault on the greatest life saver humankind has ever invented. ISTM it's my most vital work.
Podcast Host: The Learning Leader Show. NEW BOOK: The Price of Becoming
Author of Man-Made: How we designed a world that leaves women out, and how we can make it right | Design Lecturer Harvard Graduate School of Design | Former Creative Executive NIKE & Reebok.
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