The Next Big Idea

I love this podcast and its companion Next Big Idea Daily. I am a naturally curious person and find the range of topics to be pretty broad and a good match for my interests. Rufus and Caleb are engaging interviewers and each has a calm but energetic “radio” persona. I like both the long interview format and also the book bite format of the Next Big Idea Daily (I also like Michael Cavnat’s style). On several occasions I have checked the featured books out of the library and found that I got 80% of the benefit from the podcast. This morning I listened to the interview with entrepreneur Mark Pincus and found myself inspired to take a serious look at creating an online geography game with my grandson. That is saying something given that I am a 72 year old retiree with no need of extra income.

I’ve been a fan of this podcast for years, it’s always great, but the episode about Ian Leslie’s book on John and Paul’s creative relationship finally compelled me to leave a review. I’m a huge Beatles fan. Ian’s deep dive into their creative symbiosis was fascinating, and Caleb, who hosted this one, asked super thoughtful questions that made the conversation really warm and engaging. Highly recommend this episode for music and pop culture fans. I ordered the book right after listening.

I find it ironic you interrupt the show to mention about Peter Attia yet don’t mention Ari Emmanuel, zeke’s brother, involvement with Epstein

Did I just find my people? As I listen to commercials. I’m hopeful. In my simple description of “people” that are okay with enough for you less for me are “Sheep in Wolf clothing”. They know. But not enough for their “Golden Calf’s”; will allow solutions. When any money is involved.

I’d love to see this podcast platform even more thought leaders. I want my country to do a better job of elevating calm people with good stories, who know how to tell those stories well. I really liked hearing Sam’s telling of where he thinks investment should go with AgTech, his point that many markets are not actually big enough for climate disruption tech, and his ability to tell a clear story. Most of all, I liked his take on optimistic realism for the future. Cheers also to our host of interjecting to say that individual choice is not sufficient for a food revolution. I liked this critique of Kass as well. Something America has to get better at is identifying WHERE and HOW individual choice starts and stops in our capitalist system: we too often are told that individual consumer choice must seed all change. That’s too much responsibility on individuals. We need BOTH top-down and bottom-up change.