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You Have 72 Free Hours a Week. How Do You Want to Spend Them?
Jun 22, 2026
56m 56s
Are You Playing Someone Else’s Game?
Jun 18, 2026
1h 14m 44s
This World Cup Is Messy. Watch It Anyway.
Jun 15, 2026
43m 22s
The Case for AI Optimism with Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Jun 11, 2026
1h 06m 27s
Best Of: The Power of Thinking Outside Your Brain
Jun 8, 2026
1h 12m 49s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/22/26 | You Have 72 Free Hours a Week. How Do You Want to Spend Them? | Most of us swear we have no free time. But the week is 168 hours long. Subtract a 40-hour job and eight hours of sleep a night, and you're left with 72 hours. So where do they go? Today, Laura Vanderkam, author of the new book Big Time, shares her system for reclaiming her free time, including her method for knocking out "someday" projects in small daily bites. 🎬 The Next Big Idea is now on YouTube! You can find our episodes here. 📱 Follow Rufus on LinkedIn, subscribe to our Substack, or send us an email at podcast@nextbigideaclub.com. 🎁 The best way to support the show is by becoming a Next Big Idea Club member. Learn more at nextbigideaclub.com, and use code PODCAST for a super secret discount (spoiler: it’s 20% off). 🔗 SPONSORED BY: Fora ➡️ Build and scale your own travel business by becoming a Fora Advisor today at foratravel.com/idea Northwest Registered Agent ➡️ Helping small business owners and entrepreneurs launch and grow businesses for nearly 30 years. Learn more at northwestregisteredagent.com/nbifree Shopify ➡️ Launch your business for just $1/month. Start selling today at shopify.com/nbi | 56m 56s | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | Are You Playing Someone Else’s Game? | GPAs. Citations. Step counts. Likes. We love a good metric, don't we? It tells you exactly where you stand, no arguing. Mention a 4.0 to a high schooler and they'll know exactly what you mean. Tell a fellow Fitbit-wearer you just hit 10,000 and they'll nod approvingly. But that clarity has a price. To make a metric that clean, that portable, you have to sand off all the nuance, all the context, everything that made the thing worth measuring in the first place. And philosopher C. Thi Nguyen thinks that's quietly rewiring us. In his book The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game, he argues the metrics we chase have stopped measuring our values and started setting them. 🎬 The Next Big Idea is now on YouTube! You can find our episodes here. 📱 Follow Rufus on LinkedIn, subscribe to our Substack, or send us an email at podcast@nextbigideaclub.com. 🎁 The best way to support the show is by becoming a Next Big Idea Club member. Learn more at nextbigideaclub.com, and use code PODCAST for a super secret discount (spoiler: it’s 20% off). 🔗 SPONSORED BY: Fora — Build and scale your own travel business by becoming a Fora Advisor today at foratravel.com/idea Northwest Registered Agent — Helping small business owners and entrepreneurs launch and grow businesses for nearly 30 years. Learn more at northwestregisteredagent.com/nbifree Shopify — Launch your business for just $1/month. Start selling today at shopify.com/nbi | 1h 14m 44s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | This World Cup Is Messy. Watch It Anyway. | The World Cup kicked off over the weekend, and so far the mood is meh. Fans are fuming over sell-your-kidney ticket prices, frightened by reports that ICE may target matches, tailgates, and sports bars, and generally feeling down on this quadrennial celebration. We wanted to know: Is there any joy left in this thing? So we called up Simon Kuper. He's a columnist at the Financial Times, "one of the best sportswriters in the English language today" (The New Yorker), and author of the Next Big Idea Club must-read World Cup Fever. He's also attended every World Cup since 1990. Simon tells us how the tournament bridges political divides, why suicides decline during the World Cup, whether “sportswashing” really works, and which storylines to follow, no matter if you're a die-hard footy fan or a first-time viewer. 🔗 SPONSORED BY: Fora — Build and scale your own travel business by becoming a Fora Advisor today at foratravel.com/idea Northwest Registered Agent — Helping small business owners and entrepreneurs launch and grow businesses for nearly 30 years. Learn more at northwestregisteredagent.com/nbifree Shopify — Launch your business for just $1/month. Start selling today at shopify.com/nbi | 43m 22s | ||||||
| 6/11/26 | The Case for AI Optimism with Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler✨ | artificial intelligenceoptimism+3 | Peter DiamandisSteven Kotler | XPRIZEWe Are as Gods+1 | — | AIabundance+5 | — | 1h 06m 27s | |
| 6/8/26 | Best Of: The Power of Thinking Outside Your Brain✨ | neuroscienceintelligence+3 | Annie Murphy Paul | The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain | — | neuroscienceintelligence+5 | ForaCODE | 1h 12m 49s | |
| 6/4/26 | Want to Be Happier? Try Talking to Strangers.✨ | happinesssocial interaction+3 | Nicholas Epley | University of ChicagoNext Big Idea Club+1 | — | happinesstalking to strangers+3 | ForaPODCAST | 1h 16m 40s | |
| 6/1/26 | Best Of: Gretchen Rubin’s Guide to Getting Out of Your Head and Into the World✨ | happinesssenses+3 | Gretchen Rubin | Life in Five Senses | — | happinesssenses+5 | Foraidea | 54m 32s | |
| 5/28/26 | The Case for Speechmaking in the Age of Doomscrolling✨ | speechmakingAmerican identity+3 | Ben Rhodes | All We Say | — | speechmakingAmerican speeches+3 | — | 1h 06m 34s | |
| 5/25/26 | Best Of: Stop Chasing More. Start Embracing Your Limits.✨ | life limitationsimperfectionism+3 | Oliver Burkeman | Inside the BoxFour Thousand Weeks+1 | — | Oliver Burkemanimperfectionism+5 | Next Big Idea ClubPODCAST | 1h 19m 29s | |
| 5/21/26 | When Will AI Empty Your Dishwasher? (with Nicholas Thompson)✨ | AItechnology+3 | Nicholas Thompson | The AtlanticNext Big Idea Club+2 | — | AIdishwasher+3 | Granolaidea | 54m 05s | |
| 5/18/26 | Best Of: An Epicurean Guide to the Good Life✨ | Epicureanismphilosophy+4 | Emily Austin | Wake Forest UniversityLiving for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life | — | EpicurusEpicureanism+5 | Granolanbi | 1h 11m 32s | |
| 5/14/26 | What if Uncertainty Isn’t Such a Bad Thing?✨ | uncertaintyambiguity+3 | Simone Stolzoff | How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers | — | uncertaintyambiguity+3 | Granolanbi | 55m 17s | |
| 5/11/26 | You Can Grow Your Brain. Here’s How.✨ | neuroplasticitybrain health+5 | Majid Fotuhi | Johns HopkinsNext Big Idea Club+1 | — | neuroplasticitybrain growth+7 | GranolaPODCAST | 1h 20m 13s | |
| 5/7/26 | Turning Constraints Into Breakthroughs with David Epstein✨ | creativityinnovation+3 | David Epstein | Next Big Idea ClubInside the Box | — | creativityinnovation+3 | Granola | 1h 26m 48s | |
| 5/4/26 | You're in the Hospitality Business (Whether You Know It or Not)✨ | hospitalitybusiness application+3 | Will Guidara | Unreasonable Hospitality: The Field Guide | — | hospitalitybusiness+4 | Granolanbi | 1h 03m 05s | |
| 4/30/26 | We're Still Thinking About This Conversation with Will Guidara✨ | hospitalityrestaurant success+3 | Will Guidara | Next Big Idea ClubUnreasonable Hospitality: The Field Guide | — | Will Guidaraunreasonable hospitality+5 | Fabricnbi | 1h 02m 37s | |
| 4/27/26 | Here’s Our Favorite Book of the Season✨ | book recommendationauthor conversation+3 | Rufus | Next Big Idea Club | — | book of the seasonchange perspective+3 | Fabricnbi | 40m 24s | |
| 4/23/26 | “Beliefs Are Tools, Not Truths”✨ | beliefsgoals+3 | Nir Eyal | Next Big Idea Club | — | beliefsgoals+3 | Fabric | 1h 21m 36s | |
| 4/20/26 | The History and Future of Apple✨ | Appletechnology+5 | David Pogue | New York TimesCBS Sunday Morning+2 | — | AppleDavid Pogue+5 | Fabric | 1h 21m 21s | |
| 4/16/26 | Best Of: Tony Fadell’s Guide to Building Products, Startups and Careers✨ | product developmentstartups+3 | Tony Fadell | iPodiPhone+3 | — | Tony Fadellproduct building+5 | Fabric | 1h 01m 56s | |
| 4/13/26 | Demis Hassabis Wants to Build AGI. Should We Trust Him?✨ | artificial intelligencebiography+4 | Demis Hassabis | GoogleNext Big Idea Club+1 | — | AGItrust+6 | Fabric | 1h 13m 44s | |
| 4/9/26 | Patrick Radden Keefe on a Double Life, a Gilded City and a Mysterious Death✨ | mysterynonfiction+4 | Patrick Radden Keefe | New YorkerLondon Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth | LondonThames | Patrick Radden Keefemysterious death+3 | FabricNBI | 58m 18s | |
| 4/6/26 | How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay✨ | mental healthself-help+3 | Jenny Lawson | How to Be Okay When Nothing Is OkayNext Big Idea Club | — | mental healthself-help+5 | Fabric | 48m 02s | |
| 4/2/26 | Best Of: The New Science of Improving Your Memory✨ | memoryneuroscience+3 | Charan Ranganath | Next Big Idea Club | — | memoryneuroscience+5 | Granola | 1h 11m 49s | |
| 3/30/26 | How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (with Arthur C. Brooks)✨ | meaning of lifehappiness+3 | Arthur C. Brooks | HarvardNext Big Idea Club+1 | — | meaninghappiness+3 | Fabricnbi | 1h 02m 25s | |
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