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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.
We are still new at this.
Great genius is not born of lightning bolt-like moments of inspiration. In reality, perseverance plays the biggest role.
Plato, Sun Tzu, and Buddha all lived in a “golden age” of philosophy that laid the foundation of modern thought.
Quarks and leptons are the smallest known subatomic particles. Does the Standard Model allow for an even smaller layer of matter to exist?
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
Piano Sonata No. 23 offers a window into the way culture became an instrument of Soviet state policy.
We’ve made god-like figures out of hard-charging CEOs — but it’s a bad idea to get high on your own supply.
Inspired by the shape of a New Caledonian crow’s beak, researchers created a new 3D-printed prototype of tweezers.
“The Soul of a New Machine” provides a rare level of insight into the minds and decisions of humanity’s greatest thinkers.
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
The late philosopher suggested adding a couple of “Occam’s heuristics” to your critical thinking toolbox.
Size matters, but it’s not the only thing.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
The first “running machine” — later known as the bicycle — symbolizes a key design idea.
The great philosopher spent the final portion of his painful life in a vegetative state. Did illness get him there, or was it his own philosophy?
Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
While weltschmerz — literally “world-pain” — may be unpleasant, it can also spur us to change things for the better.
From Aristotle’s lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant’s “scientific” racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.
Daydreaming can be a pleasant pastime, but people who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming are trapped by their fantasies.
Centuries ago, the plague forced people into quarantine for years. Isaac Newton and Galileo used the time to revolutionize the world.
Perhaps wormholes will no longer be relegated to the realm of science fiction.