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  • Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems

    Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems
    Jan 23 2026
    1️⃣ Both/And Thinking by Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis 2️⃣ Black-and-White Thinking by Kevin Dutton Sponsored By: Shopify - Start your $1/month trial at shopify.com/daily
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    35 Min.
  • We’re Teaching American History All Wrong

    We’re Teaching American History All Wrong
    Jan 22 2026
    James Traub is a journalist and educator who spent a year visiting public schools across the country to understand what’s going wrong and what’s going right. His new book is The Cradle of Citizenship: How Schools Can Help Save Our Democracy. And in the second half of the show, you'll hear from Alexandra Robbins, whose book The Teachers goes behind the scenes of America's most vulnerable profession to show why supporting educators is the key to fixing everything else. Sponsored By: Shopify - Start your $1/month trial at shopify.com/daily
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    30 Min.
  • How Not to Die (According to an ER Doctor)

    How Not to Die (According to an ER Doctor)
    Jan 21 2026
    Ashely Alker MD is an emergency medicine doctor and medical consultant who has seen it all — from freak accidents to horror-movie-worthy diseases. Her new book is 99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them, and she joins us below with her potentially life-saving tips. Sponsored By: Shopify - Start your $1/month trial at shopify.com/daily
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    19 Min.
  • Life Changes You. The Question Is How.

    Life Changes You. The Question Is How.
    Jan 20 2026
    First up, Maya Shankar (The Other Side of Change) on uncertainty, resilience, and becoming someone new on the other side of disruption. Then John Kaag shares five key insights from Robert Richardson's 2023 book Three Roads Back. Sponsored By: Shopify - Start your $1/month trial at shopify.com/daily
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    29 Min.
  • Why the Five-Day Workweek No Longer Makes Sense

    Why the Five-Day Workweek No Longer Makes Sense
    Jan 19 2026
    Chances are, you work five days a week. Monday through Friday. And you probably don’t think much about it, because that’s just how work works, right? But who decided that five days was the right number in the first place? As it turns out, the modern workweek wasn’t thoughtfully designed for focus, creativity, or even productivity. It was inherited from the Industrial Age, built for factory floors and time clocks, not knowledge workers and digital tools. So maybe it’s time for a rethink. In Do More in Four: Why It’s Time for a Shorter Workweek, researcher and work redesign strategist Joe O’Connor and journalist Jared Lindzon make the case that working less can actually help us do better work. Sponsored By: Shopify - Start your $1/month trial at shopify.com/daily
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    32 Min.
  • How to Solve Problems Before They Happen

    How to Solve Problems Before They Happen
    Jan 16 2026
    First, Dan Heath reveals how the most effective leaders don't just solve problems — they prevent them from happening in the first place. Then Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg shares research that shows reframing problems is the real key to breakthrough solutions. Sponsored By: Shopify - Start your $1/month trial at shopify.com/daily
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    35 Min.
  • Your Self-Discipline Isn’t the Problem

    Your Self-Discipline Isn’t the Problem
    Jan 15 2026
    Productivity expert Chris Bailey explains why follow-through fails — and how aligning your values, intentions, and friction levels makes action feel natural. And later in the show, we hear from Becky Blades, author of Start More Than You Can Finish. Sponsors: Shopify - Start your $1/month trial at shopify.com/daily
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    35 Min.
  • What If Laughing More Made You Better at Everything?

    What If Laughing More Made You Better at Everything?
    Jan 14 2026
    Most of us think of humor as something that happens at comedy clubs or in group texts with friends. But what if laughter could actually make you better at your job, more creative, and more connected to the people around you? Chris Duffy is a comedian, TV writer, and host of TED’s award-winning How to Be a Better Human podcast. In the first half of today's show, he shares five big ideas from his new book Humor Me: How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy. Later, we hear from Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas about their book Humor, Seriously. Sponsored By: Shopify - Start your $1/month trial at shopify.com/daily
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    28 Min.