Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Don’t make the mistake of blindly following quantitative metrics — whether you’re helping clients or looking for lunch.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
“When we face a problem, our natural tendency is to race ahead – but some friction is actually a good thing.”
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If you’re out on a walk, you will see a different world than your dog, a bee, or an ant. Here are three reasons why that matters.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
“I’m often asked: “Are great strategic thinkers born, or are they made?” And my answer is always yes. Like so many human capabilities, it’s a mixture of nature, nurture and experience.”
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It’s hard to know what other people know. But it’s not impossible.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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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Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
After almost a century in print, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” still has lessons to teach us.
The Danish philosopher’s simple paradox — living forwards while looking backwards — can be translated into golden business insights.
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.
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.