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How to Think Before You Think

August 18, 2026

What does it mean to think well? In Think Before You Think: Understanding and Mastering Executive Function, Adrian Owen explains the hidden mental skills that help us focus, plan, pause, and make better decisions. And in The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness, Leslie Valiant explores the uniquely human ability to absorb knowledge—and the very modern problem of knowing which information to trust. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you used code PODC...

Money, Meaning, and the Trap of More

August 17, 2026

Money is supposed to buy freedom. So why does chasing it so often make life feel smaller? In Young Money: A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties, Jack Raines argues that your twenties aren’t just a warm-up act for adulthood—they’re a stage of life with risks, opportunities, and joys worth taking seriously. And in The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble, Alok Sama takes us inside the wild world of high finance and tech investing, where more money doesn’t always mea...

What Makes a Job Good?

August 14, 2026

What do we really want from work—a paycheck, a purpose, a community, a calling? Today, MIT Sloan professor Zeynep Ton makes the business case for treating workers better in The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone’s Work. Then UC Berkeley sociologist Carolyn Chen looks at the other side of work’s expanding role in our lives: what happens when the office starts replacing older sources of identity, belonging, and meaning? Her book is Work Pray Code...