The one thing making most extroverts miserable
It’s so easy to be incorrect about whether you’re extroverted or introverted, given the amount of misinformation out there. “Hasn’t…
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About Ideapod
The place for ideas and inspiration
Our core mission is to provide education and learning platforms where ideas are explored through dialogue and turned into action. In an age of echo chambers and filter bubbles, we encourage the pursuit of truth by raising provocative questions and eschewing groupthink. We value open mindedness, critical analysis and people thinking for themselves.
Our main site is a digital media platform where we provide commentary on the ideas shaping our lives – and our future. We publish creative and intelligent journalism, helping our readers to understand the ideas that shape their worldview — and where we’re headed. Our articles are quite provocative and thoughtful, and now have an audience of between 3 and 5 million monthly readers.
Exploring the big ideas
Opinions and analysis on the most important issues in science, politics and culture
In the world I live in, intentions mean very little. Your actions do, though. This seems obvious. We’re living during a time of constant propaganda and lies, so it makes sense to judge people based on what they do rather than what they say or intend to do. We could…
Justin BrownMay 9, 2018
Anger. We’ve all felt this emotion before. Some of you are probably angry now as you’re reading this. Physically, you feel your heart starts to race. You scream, shout, cry, hit things, retreat or become destructive and this is the cause of your adrenal glands releasing the stress hormones adrenaline and…
Boonn HemMay 9, 2018
I have three questions for you… Q1: Do you find yourself spending more time on your smartphone than you realize? Q2: Do you wish you could do something to reduce the hold your phone has over you? Q3: Are you to blame? *** We seem to live in a world…
James OversMay 9, 2018
When you were a teenager, you wanted nothing more than to finally escape from your parents. You probably imagined adulthood as a mythical time when you’d be free to find your own truth, pursue your own dreams and live by your own values, far from the prison of your parents’…
Rudá IandéMay 1, 2018
On 14 April, Syria was attacked by armed forces from the United Kingdom, the United States and France. They fired missiles to destroy what they argued were chemical weapons factories. The air strikes were in response to a suspected chemical attack in an area called Douma. It was the biggest…
Justin BrownApril 28, 2018
Just last week I was offered a job. A bread-and-butter-type job that a 23-year-old university student with barely any cents to his name couldn’t pass up. The only catch was that it kinda went against every single thing I believe in…. That is, since I recently read a book by…
James OversApril 21, 2018
The people bringing you Ideapod
Meet the Ideapod team members and regular contributors
Justin Brown
Co-founder
Justin started Ideapod as a social network for ideas while doing his PhD in international political economy. He's since left the PhD and helped Ideapod grow into a digital media platform with millions of monthly readers.
Lachlan Brown
Editor-in-Chief
Lachlan shapes Ideapod's editorial strategy, focusing on getting millions of eyeballs on the ideas we publish.
Rudá Iandé
Inspiration Adviser
Rudá is a shaman and an inspiration adviser to Ideapod. He has co-created Out of the Box with Ideapod, a movement inspiring people to break free from societal and educational conditioning.
Gosia Kurowska
Writer
Gosia was born in Poland and has lived and worked in Belgium as a communications and press officer for the EU Institutions.