Are We Living in an Age of Magical Overthinki...

We spend so much time optimizing how we live — our habits, our mindset, our routines. But what about where we live? On today's episode, two authors make a powerful case that the spaces around us matter more than we think. Leidy Klotz, author of In a Good Place: How the Spaces Whe ...  Show more

What does it mean to serve your country after the uniform comes off? Today on The Next Big Idea Daily, two veterans answer that question in very different — and deeply inspiring — ways. Rye Barcott, co-founder of With Honor, profiles ten Americans from both sides of the aisle in ...  Show more

Amanda Montell is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, as well as Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism and Wordslut. Amanda is a linguistics major from NYU and all of her work centers around the way that words— ...  Show more

Allison knows something is fundamentally different about her. She looks different and she feels different from the other girls in school. But when her parents refuse to acknowledge just how different she is, it becomes harder and harder for her to reckon with who she is, and who ...  Show more

A quoi sert la philosophie ? Quelle différence avec le développement personnel ? S'applique-t-elle à nous ? En quoi peut-elle nous aider à vivre, concrètement ? Est-elle efficace pour guérir nos souffrances et nos peines ? Pourquoi se pose-t-on en général la question du sens ...

If the algorithm knows what we want before we do… who’s really in charge? This week, host Amanda Montell(@amanda_montell) is joined by linguist, creator, and internet culture observer Adam Aleksic (@etymologynerd) to spiral deep into the invisible yet all powerful force shaping o ...  Show more