Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
“People will claim that something is rigorous because it’s by an authority figure or it’s written in a book. But anyone can write a book.”
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How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.
Why would someone who has spent their entire career following orders become a great leader overnight?
Some news is slow, some news is fast — and there are two simple techniques to help you filter both.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Unraveling the subtle mechanics of luck can help us better steer the wheel of fortune.
Welcome to the Big Think debut of The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
“We can use neuroscience and tools from psychology to learn how to take advantage of anxiety.” From Zen Buddhism to flow state, these 3 experts explain how to hack your brain.
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The Danish philosopher’s simple paradox — living forwards while looking backwards — can be translated into golden business insights.
After almost a century in print, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” still has lessons to teach us.
Hindsight can cloud our predictive abilities but big data can de-mist forecasting — now AI is sharpening that focus.
AI researcher and author Ken Stanley wonders how our rear-view perspective on success fits into a serendipitous mode of innovation.
Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
Josh Kaufman — best-selling author of entrepreneurial classic “The Personal MBA” — explores an essential truth about all decision-making.
Chip Conley — founder and CEO of JDV Hospitality and Airbnb’s former Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy — maps out an inclusive path from hindsight to wisdom.
You will need determination, humility, and courage if you are to master anything.
The best of all investor attributes is easily attained — and unbeatable in combination with other advantages.
Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist — Frederik Pferdt — lays out a map for navigating unprecedented change and innovation.
It’s good to be a wallflower. But sometimes, you need to show yourself off a bit.
Take a seat. Take a breath. Take a break.
Rhetorical mastery is within everyone’s reach — equipped with some basic techniques you can rock it like Aristotle.
Redemption is the journey towards becoming a better person. It’s the story of human life.
The benefits of learning with guidance are clear — but the expert and the novice must have a shared understanding of the goal.
The road from Kant to modern cognitive psychology has taught us much about our mental filtering systems.
Schopenhauer and Freud can help teams navigate the most prickly of collaboration problems.
Taco Thursdays and free yoga have their limits — for lasting workplace happiness leaders need to think about purpose.
Nobody likes the uneasy feeling of being watched — so can there be any workplace benefit to the all-seeing eye?
Voltaire’s wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
Leadership evasion might seem like a plan for workplace freedom but it isn’t a good thing — it’s a denial of opportunity.