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12 Provocations for Year Ahead: 2025

“Predictions are boring. None of us knows the future and therefore no one cares what you think is going to happen. Provocations are different. There is no right or wrong, just boring or stimulating. As a result, they can take many more forms: a meaningful question, a firm statement, or ambiguous feeling.”

That’s the way this list of provocations from leadership network ON_Discourse is introduced as the platform compiled interesting thoughts from their members to share as an alternative to pre...

The Non-Obvious Book Awards: 2024 Shortlist and Winners Announcement!

What were the best 15 books of the year in 2024? Join us for this LIVE announcement of the best books of the year curated by Rohit Bhargava and the team at the Non-Obvious Company.

We will announce the 10 shortlisted titles as well as the best five books of the year. In the show, we will also take a look at 12 big themes from books across the year and the best titles and covers of the year as well.

See more details about the awards program and past winners of the awards at www.nonobvio...

Amsterdam Launched a Campaign to Convince British Tourists NOT to Visit. Did It Work?

Back in 2023, in response to a growing number of young male British tourists partying, getting drunk and generally behaving badly, the city of Amsterdam launched a “digital discouragement” campaign aimed at suggesting that these visitors would not be welcome and should skip their trips. At the time, the campaign was widely shared, and many criticized it for unfairly targeting one stereotype of British traveler. Others suggested the real problem was over tourism, which was being fueled by the cit...

The Non-Obvious Books of the Week: The 2024 Non-Obvious Book Awards Longlist

After considering more than 1000 submissions and hours of reviewing titles, I’m thrilled to share that our latest round of winners for the Non-Obvious Book Awards was just announced today! These are the best 100 non-fiction books published in the past twelve months, and you can see the full list on the book awards website »

Next Thursday at 11am EST, we will be doing a LIVE announcement of the Shortlist and the top winners of the event, along with an exploration of the best cover designs, bes...

The Truth About Food Deserts and How the Solution to Fix Them Already Exists

A food desert is defined as “a geographic area where residents’ access to affordable, healthy food options (especially fresh fruits and vegetables) is restricted or nonexistent due to the absence of grocery stores within convenient traveling distance. I have known the term for a while but always assumed that the existence of these areas was a symptom of capitalism. It was probably just not economically viable for grocery stores to exist in economically depressed areas. An article from The Atlant...

The Top 12 Trends from Non-Fiction Books Published in 2024

This week is the first announcement for our annual Non-Obvious Book Awards and we just published our list of the Top 100 books of the year that made our annual Longlist. As part of our judging process, I also spend some time looking for some macro themes across the many submissions we receive. In total, we consider more than 1000 books published across the past 12 months from publishers of all sizes (and a handful of submitted self-published books too).

Yesterday I published a short artic...

The Non-Obvious 2024 Holiday Gift Guide + FREE Audio Book: Ideas 10 – 12

This week in my blog posts, I’m following an annual tradition of sharing some ideas for non-obvious gifts this holiday season. These are a combination of products introduced this year and previously launched products that I felt had some relevance for right now. The things we buy often reflect the times in which we live, and so I hope you find my picks below to be both useful and insightful.

The last one is something my team and I have been working on for several months as an exclusive gift f...

The Non-Obvious 2024 Holiday Gift Guide: Ideas 7-9

This week in my blog posts, I’m following an annual tradition of sharing some ideas for non-obvious gifts this holiday season. These are a combination of products introduced this year and previously launched products that I felt had some relevance for right now. The things we buy often reflect the times in which we live, and so I hope you find my picks below to be both useful and insightful.

This holiday season, enjoy your time with family and friends and amidst the temptation to indulge in b...

The Non-Obvious 2024 Holiday Gift Guide: Ideas 4-6

This week in my blog posts, I’m following an annual tradition of sharing some ideas for non-obvious gifts this holiday season. These are a combination of products introduced this year and previously launched products that I felt had some relevance for right now. The things we buy often reflect the times in which we live, and so I hope you find my picks below to be both useful and insightful.

This holiday season, enjoy your time with family and friends and amidst the temptation to indulge in b...

The Non-Obvious 2024 Holiday Gift Guide: Ideas 1 – 3

This week in my blog posts, I’m following an annual tradition of sharing some ideas for non-obvious gifts this holiday season. These are a combination of products introduced this year and previously launched products that I felt had some relevance for right now. The things we buy often reflect the times in which we live, and so I hope you find my picks below to be both useful and insightful.

This holiday season, enjoy your time with family and friends and amidst the temptation to indulge in b...