Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

NASA’s Caleb Scharf talks with Big Think about life’s long experiment in expansion.

The greatest companies navigate change at speed and make it stick at scale. Here’s how IBM started that journey in 2012.

“The purpose of a coach is to not be the one to set the goals, but instead to say, "Here are the kinds of goals we can work our way through.””

In the operating room, success isn’t about one person but the teamwork behind them. Surgeon Atul Gawande says those lessons under pressure apply far beyond medicine.

Former tech founder Scott Britton wants to shatter the binary myth that separates driving ambition from inner development.

“Consciousness is fundamental. It's a fundamental property of the world that we inhabit, a fundamental property of the universe.”

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Is your humor affiliative or adversarial?

“When you start to accept that you have profound influence on the world, but very limited control, you start to see the world differently.”

Panpsychist philosopher Philip Goff, PhD on mysticism and the future of faith.

“In most instances, ‘good enough’ is good enough.” A time management expert, a cognitive scientist, and a psychologist share their takes on productivity, perfectionism, and the harm of hustle culture.

Times dilate and lengths contract near the speed of light. Bizarre and confusing? Sure. But under relativity, it can't be any other way.

In this excerpt from "The Shortest History of AI," Toby Walsh explores the history of the Logic Theorist, the first AI to prove mathematical theorems.

A preview of the latest novel by the National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson.

Maybe — just don't expect a carbon copy.

Andrew Markell — philosopher, martial artist, and CEO advisor — argues that true endurance comes from desire, ritual, and learning to evolve through chaos.

From neuroscience to philosophy, experts reveal why compassion may be the most important human skill we have.

“There would be something very, very empty and meaningless about [a] sort of life with no problems.”

Everywhere we turn, we’re surrounded by polished images of how life should look, and even though we know perfection isn’t real, this can leave us feeling stuck. In this class, Oliver Burkeman invites us to see through that illusion and embrace our limitations, revealing a more grounded path to productivity that actually works for real, imperfect people.

Wales shares with Big Think his thoughts about the future of media, the promise of AI, and our need to build a culture on trust.

Introverts have social batteries that will drain over time, but they can be recharged with good energy hygiene. Here’s how.

In most organizations, contradictions are treated as problems to be fixed. But what if they’re actually the point?

“Let me walk you through the biggest traps that you should be aware of that are a danger to your financial wellbeing.”

It's no wonder great writers swear by messy first drafts.

In this excerpt from "Playful," Cas Holman surveys the research that brought the neuroscience of play into the mainstream.

Philosophy asks if free will is real. Neuroscience reveals why the answer is more complicated than we expected.

In this excerpt from "One Hand Clapping," Nikolay Kukushkin makes the case that neurons reveal how memory, meaning, and even consciousness emerge from the same biological roots in humans, sea slugs, and beyond.

When making any tough decision, the key is not to be overly exploratory or exploitative.

Marine Tanguy — author and founder/CEO of MTArt Agency — argues that viewing and creating art has profound benefits.