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What if engaging with great ideas could become one of your daily habits? What if some of the best tips for living better and working smarter were served up with your morning coffee, a hit of motivation guaranteed to start your day right? That’s the idea behind The Next Big Idea Daily. We work with hundreds of non-fiction authors — experts in productivity, creativity, leadership, communication, and other fields. They distill their big ideas into bite-sized chunks, and we offer you one each morning.

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Friday · 25 min
Game Theory Explains the Weird Things You Do
People do puzzling things. We buy things to impress strangers, give to charities without checking whether they work, and dig in during negotiations even when a deal would help everyone. Game theory suggests there's a logic underneath all of it. In their 2022 book, Hidden Games, Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli show how hidden incentives shape everything from fashion to altruism. Then Yale professor Barry Nalebuff's 2022 book, Split the Pie, takes that thinking to the negotiating table and asks whether we've been arguing over the wrong number all along. Two books about the games we play, whether we know it or not. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Quince — Give the gift of quality this holiday season. Go to quince.com/nbid to get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Fabric by Gerber Life offers term life insurance you can get done today. Join the thousands of parents who trust Fabric to help protect their family. Apply today in just minutes at meetfabric.com/daily Hostinger — Create your website today for just $1.99. Go to hostinger.com/nbid and use code NBID for an additional 10% off Black Friday and Cyber Monday pricing.
Thursday · 23 min
The Science of Optimism
It’s easy to feel optimistic when everything is going according to plan. But what happens when the plan falls apart—or the challenge lasts longer than expected? Positive psychology researcher Michelle Gielan says optimism isn’t just a feeling we either have or don’t. In Resilient Optimism: The Science of Sustaining a Positive Mindset in Tough Times, she explores how we can practice it, even when circumstances are difficult. Then anthropologist and endurance athlete Michael Crawley shares ideas from To the Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas, exploring what different cultures can teach us about why we push ourselves—and how enduring together can bring us closer. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at nextbigideaclub.com ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com Sponsored By: Quince — Give the gift of quality this holiday season. Go to quince.com/nbid to get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Fabric by Gerber Life offers term life insurance you can get done today. Join the thousands of parents who trust Fabric to help protect their family. Apply today in just minutes at meetfabric.com/daily Hostinger — Create your website today for just $1.99. Go to hostinger.com/nbid and use code NBID for an additional 10% off Black Friday and Cyber Monday pricing.
Wednesday · 31 min
To Plan Your Future, Look at Your Past
Before you make plans for the future, how often do you stop to consider the life you’ve already lived? In Life in Perspective, productivity expert Tiago Forte makes the case for an annual review that starts with looking back—not judging yourself or rushing into resolutions. Then, Life Worth Living (2023), by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, takes the question a step further: Are the things we’re chasing actually worth wanting? Together, the books offer a chance to pause, reflect, and think more carefully about what matters most. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at nextbigideaclub.com ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com Sponsored By: Quince — Give the gift of quality this holiday season. Go to quince.com/nbid to get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Fabric by Gerber Life offers term life insurance you can get done today. Join the thousands of parents who trust Fabric to help protect their family. Apply today in just minutes at meetfabric.com/daily Hostinger — Create your website today for just $1.99. Go to hostinger.com/nbid and use code NBID for an additional 10% off Black Friday and Cyber Monday pricing.
Tuesday · 32 min
How Parenthood Changes the Brain
Becoming a parent changes your life—but what happens to your brain? Neuroscientist Susana Carmona explores the remarkable transformations of pregnancy and parenthood in A Mother’s Brain: The New Science of the Neuro-Maternal Revolution, and explains why “mommy brain” isn’t quite what we think. Then, psychiatrist Daniel Amen and parenting expert Charles Fay turn to the brains of children—and the adults raising them. In Raising Mentally Strong Kids, they share ideas for building connection, setting loving limits, and helping kids learn from their mistakes. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
Monday · 33 min
The New Rules of Power
Algorithms increasingly shape what we see, think, and value—but who gets to decide how that power is used? In Trias Algorithmica: What Code Rules, AI researcher Hamilton Mann argues that algorithms wield a new kind of societal power, and makes the case for checks to keep it from concentrating unchecked. ⁠⁠ In Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI, Oxford philosopher Carissa Véliz explores how predictions—from ancient oracles to AI—can shape the future they claim to foresee, and why uncertainty helps protect our freedom. ⁠⁠ Together, the books ask how we can keep algorithmic power accountable—and our future open. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at nextbigideaclub.com ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at notion.com/daily Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 30 · 28 min
Your Brain on Spirituality
Can spiritual practices help us, even if we’re not sure what we believe? In How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion, psychologist David DeSteno explores what rituals surrounding gratitude, care, and loss can teach us about living better. And in The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life, Columbia psychologist Lisa Miller examines what happens in the brain when we experience a deep sense of connection. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 29 · 31 min
The New Appeal of Autocracy
What happens when people start seeing democracy not as the solution, but as the problem? In American Caesar, religion scholar Bradley Onishi examines an emerging alliance of Christian nationalists and technocratic thinkers who believe America needs a strong leader to impose order. Then former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul widens the lens in Autocrats vs. Democrats, exploring how the United States’ relationships with China and Russia have shifted—and what the Cold War can and can’t teach us about today’s competition between political systems. Together, they consider the appeal of concentrated power and the challenges facing democracy at home and abroad. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at nextbigideaclub.com ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at notion.com/daily Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to quince.com/nbid for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 28 · 17 min
When Your Best Friend Isn't Human
A chatbot is always available, endlessly patient, and happy to hear about your day. But is that connection—or a convincing imitation? In Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, MIT’s Sherry Turkle asks what we risk when we turn to machines for companionship and care. Then, in Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI, data scientist Alex Pentland explores how communities learn from one another—and how we might design technology to strengthen that exchange rather than undermine it. Together, they raise a question that’s bigger than what AI can do: What do we still need from each other?⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 27 · 28 min
Are You Burned Out, or Just Tired?
You’ve hit your goals, kept everyone happy, and earned a little time off. So why doesn’t a weekend away fix the exhaustion? In Breaking Burnout: How High Achievers Break the Success Myths Driving Exhaustion, Overwork, and Burnout, former C-suite executive Nabeela Elsayed examines the ideas about achievement that keep us working past our limits. But understanding exhaustion also means noticing work that rarely gets counted. In her 2023 book Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power, journalist Rose Hackman explores the effort of managing other people’s feelings—and why that burden falls so unevenly. Together, they ask what changes when we stop treating self-sacrifice as part of the job.⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 26 · 30 min
Is Playing It Safe Holding You Back?
Waiting until things feel safe before making your next move? You might be waiting a while. In Worth the Risk: The Seven Myths That Keep Us from Taking the Chances We Need to Take, economist Allison Schrager challenges the idea that uncertainty is our biggest problem—and asks what we lose by avoiding it. Then, in her 2021 book Choose Possibility: Take Risks and Thrive (Even When You Fail), technology executive Sukhinder Singh Cassidy takes on the pressure to make one perfect, life-changing leap. Together, they explore how to get moving without treating every decision like a bet on your entire future.⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 23 · 31 min
The Startup End Game
Building a startup is often framed as a race to scale. But what happens after growth—and how early should you plan for the ending? In the 2022 book Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game, Touraj Parang explains why founders should start with the end in mind, preserve their options, and build momentum toward a successful exit. Then, in the 2021 book Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs, June Cohen and Reid Hoffman share lessons about embracing imperfection, learning from rejection, and knowing when to pivot. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 22 · 36 min
Hierarchy Is Broken. Here's How to Fix It.
Why do workplace hierarchies so often fail the people inside them? In Level Up: Why Hierarchies Are Broken and How to Fix Them, Stanford organizational psychologist Nir Halevy examines how rank and power distort organizations—and what people at every level can do about it. Then, in the 2023 book Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work, McKinsey leaders Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, and Emily Field argue that middle managers aren’t dead weight. They’re the crucial link between strategy and the people doing the work. Together, the books make a case for rebuilding hierarchy around responsibility, coaching, and useful authority—not bureaucracy. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 21 · 31 min
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Overload
What if feeling better isn’t about finding the next new thing, but remembering what we’ve stopped doing? In The Great Remembering: Powerful Ancient Practices—And the New Science Bringing Them Back, TED Talks co-creator June Cohen explores how movement, shared rituals, and time in nature can help us navigate hard times. Then, cultural historian Tiffany Jenkins considers another resource worth reclaiming: a private life. Her 2025 book, Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life, asks what happens when we share everything with strangers but struggle to connect with the people closest to us. Two perspectives on making modern life feel a little more human.⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 20 · 30 min
Success Is a Team Sport. Here’s How to Find Your People.
Success is often told as a solo story: one talented person works hard, then makes it. But who noticed their potential, challenged their thinking, or opened a door? In Lift: The Three Hidden Forces That Launch Remarkable Lives, Jeff Cunningham explores the people and circles that help us rise. Then Carnegie Mellon researcher Rosalind Chow’s The Doors You Can Open: A New Way to Network, Build Trust, and Use Your Influence to Create a More Inclusive Workplace asks how we can do that for others—not just by offering advice, but by using our influence to make their strengths visible. Together, the books show how to be lifted—and how to lift someone else. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 19 · 30 min
How to Use AI Without Getting Dumber
AI can help you finish the work faster. But what happens when you stop practicing those skills? In The Collision: What AI Does to Us, MIT professor Eric So explores how tools that boost today’s productivity can quietly weaken tomorrow’s judgment—and how to use them without outsourcing your thinking. Then, in his 2024 book Irreplaceable: The Art of Standing Out in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, AI expert Pascal Bornet considers the other side of that challenge: developing the creativity, critical thinking, and authentic connections that make your contribution distinctive. How do we get more from AI without becoming less capable ourselves?⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 16 · 28 min
Outer Space is Stranger Than You Think
Space looks spectacular in photographs. But what would you actually see if you were standing on another world? Astronomer Philip Plait takes us beyond the telescope in Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe, imagining the view from worlds with twin suns, Saturn’s rings, and places where space and time get very strange. Then theoretical physicist Chandra Prescod-Weinstein widens the lens in The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, exploring both the universe’s unseen ingredients and the human choices that shape who gets to study it. A journey through the cosmos—and a reminder that the night sky belongs to all of us.⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 15 · 21 min
Why We Want Things We Don’t Need
Why does the next new thing always seem like the thing that will finally make life better? In Saying No to New: Why New Things Are Stealing Your Time, Money, and Happiness—And How to Take Back Your Life, New York Times editor Eric Athas explores our appetite for novelty and the tactics businesses use to keep it fed. Katy Kelleher takes that question beneath the surface in The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption, uncovering the tangled human and environmental histories behind objects we covet, from perfume to gemstones. Two perspectives on what drives our desires—and whether enjoying something beautiful has to mean owning it.⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 14 · 30 min
Why Bad Feelings Stick
Why do bad feelings have such staying power? In The Opposite of Happiness: How Bad Feelings Make and Break Us, behavioral economist George Loewenstein explores how evolution shaped our emotional lives—and why sadness, anxiety, and regret so often crowd out pleasure. Psychotherapist Whitney Goodman takes on our response to those feelings in Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy, examining when well-meant encouragement becomes pressure to pretend we’re fine. Together, they invite us to understand difficult emotions rather than rush to erase them—and reconsider what it really means to support someone who’s struggling.⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 13 · 35 min
Why Smart Groups Make Bad Decisions
Smart people can make terrible decisions—or brilliant ones. What makes the difference? In Goodthink: The New Science of Collective Intelligence, Damon Centola, a University of Pennsylvania professor who directs the Network Dynamics Group, shares two decades of research showing that a group's structure matters more than its talent. Put doctors in the right kind of network, and their diagnostic accuracy doubles; put them in the wrong one, and error explodes. Then we revisit Damon's book Change: How to Make Big Things Happen for the flip side: how ideas actually spread through social networks, and why ordinary people—not influencers—are often the ones who tip the balance. If you've ever left a meeting wondering how everyone agreed on the wrong answer, this one's for you. 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠⁠notion.com/daily⁠⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠⁠quince.com/nbid⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.
October 12 · 34 min
When the Cost is Higher Than the Price
Same product. Same store. A different price—just for you? Lindsay Owens, author of Gouged: The End of a Fair Price—and What That Means for Your Wallet, explores how companies use algorithms and personal data to figure out what we’ll tolerate paying. But a tilted marketplace isn’t one consumers have to accept. Marta Tellado, president and CEO of Consumer Reports and author of Buyer Aware: Harnessing Our Consumer Power for a Safe, Fair, and Transparent Marketplace, makes the case that privacy, safety, and fair treatment aren’t perks—they’re rights. Together, their ideas raise a timely question: What would it take to make the marketplace work for us again?⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎁 Save 20% on a Next Big Idea Club membership when you use code PODCAST at⁠ ⁠nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ ✉️ Get big ideas in your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe at⁠ ⁠bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠ Sponsored By: Notion — Learn more about how Notion can support your business, at ⁠notion.com/daily⁠ Quince — Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to ⁠quince.com/nbid⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Keeper — Right now, Keeper's offering podcast listeners! 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/DAILY.

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