AI, anxiety, and emotional intelligence are on learners’ minds as they prepare to tackle the new year.
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The late philosopher suggested adding a couple of “Occam’s heuristics” to your critical thinking toolbox.
“Self-awareness, it’s the least visible part of emotional intelligence, but we find in our research that people low in self-awareness are unable to develop strengths very well in other parts of emotional intelligence.”
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
“If we’re to be happy at all, it has to be found outside of this notion of pleasure. We have to step beyond hedonia. But the problem is that we risk going too far.”
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Organizational scientist Steven Rogelberg discusses the common meeting mistakes leaders make and how they can change course.
What’s keeping L&D leaders up at night? These are the trends shaping leadership development in 2025.
Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
In our competitive world, fortune does not appear to favor the humble — but a strong counter-narrative is emerging.
Psychologist Noel Brick shares the mental techniques we can use to improve our performance on and off the field.
These were the stories you clicked on the most.
According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.
The comedian and musician behind the viral hit “BBL Drizzy” shares the books that shaped his thinking and approach to art.
Listen, set boundaries, and point them where to go.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
“If you’re training an AI to optimize for a task, and deception is a good way for it to complete the task, then there’s a good chance that it will use deception.”
Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the “3 Rs”: rage, resentment, and revenge.
“The primary way that people make friends is through institutions.”
Voltaire’s wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
The hangover “cures” on the market don’t work. A new hydrogel does.
In the 18th century, David Hume argued that we are only motivated to do good when our passions direct us to do so. Was he right?
“Only a narcissist would want to become president.” This is the psychology of an authoritarian unpacked.
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“I hope we take a mindset where we are willing to look for weird life in weird places.”
You know ChatGPT, but how much do you know about the company that made it? Journalist Karen Hao joins us to talk OpenAI’s latest implosion.
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It’s good to be a wallflower. But sometimes, you need to show yourself off a bit.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
“It is natural to want to avoid failure. But when we avoid failure, we also avoid discovery and accomplishment.”
Just because you can’t experience it doesn’t mean it’s not real.
Mating, monogamy, and maximizing your sexual potential explained by 3 sex experts.
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