Economics & Work Archives

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Why every long-term investor should study ancient architecture

Magnificent time-tested buildings are filled with lessons in resilience and stability — and the benefits for investment strategy can be huge.

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Business

How to win the long game: Fight unfair fights

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

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Business

Why founders should fight hardwired “hyperbolic discounting”

Startup success can often hinge on a key lesson derived from behavioral science … and Jerry Seinfeld’s “Night Guy vs. Morning Guy” routine.

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The Present

Port workers are at war with automation. Can they win?

A prolonged strike could cost the economy between $500 million to $4.5 billion per day.

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Business

Inside the world’s most important company

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

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Business

Why AI could transform all jobs into BS

Oxford professor of ethics, John Tasioulas, thinks we should consider the loss of opportunity for “striving and succeeding” that AI is likely to bring.

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The Long Game

Question: Are you asking the “right” questions?

Take it from Bezos, Musk, and Einstein — rethinking lines of inquiry can transform business, investing, and innovation strategy.

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Business

5 proven CEO strategies for riding any wave of innovation

The successful tactics of big-name leaders — including Bob Iger, Mary Barra, and Satya Nadella — reveal key approaches to innovation.

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Business

Mark Zuckerberg’s 4 steps to approach life

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

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Business

The new ethos permeating the investment world

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

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The Long Game

“Move fast and break things”? Slow down and go long

Businesses are realizing that rapid disruption without stability can lead to long-term failure. A new era of thoughtful, sustainable growth is emerging.

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The Future

The myth of lone genius: How innovation clusters drive progress

Studying why innovation clusters form can shed light on how to better promote research and growth.

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Business

Tactical leadership: The “Navy SEALs” of Airbnb

Airbnb’s CBO, Dave Stephenson, joins Big Think for a chat about elite-team leadership, “founder mode,” the Taylor Swift effect, and more.

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Business

The AI manifesto of a Silicon Valley legend

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

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Business

6 compelling reasons your work future is “skills-powered”

College degree? Not so much. Employers want teams with a diverse skill set who can adapt to changing industry demands.

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Business

How to create an “idea generation assembly line”

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

The Long Game

The Kevin Kelly interview: The power of “radical optimism”

The co-founder of Wired magazine shares his insights on how a long-term mindset can shape a brighter, more innovative future.

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Business

The thrill is in the hunt — not just the victory

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

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The Long Game

Play it again: The causal link between fun and resilience

Fun in business is no laughing matter — it can create a golden strategic advantage and bring serious success in the long term.

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Business

The essential skill to master across life and business

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

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Business

Athlete vs. grandmaster: The psychology of decision-making

How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.

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Business

The unconventional philosophy behind “founder mode”

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

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The Past

The anxious history of the American summer camp

The annual rite of passage has always been more about the ambivalence of adults than the amusement of children.

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Neuropsych

Are you a workaholic? How to spot the signs

In a major shift, psychologists now view an out-of-control compulsion to work as an addiction with its own set of risk factors and consequences.

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Business

The trillion-dollar AI race to create “Digital God”

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

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Business

Will AI create more jobs or send us the way of the horses?

Evidence shows that “centaurs” — human–AI teaming — produce better performance than either people or software can achieve alone.

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Business

Why we should end the fantasy of the “Turnaround CEO”

Big Think guest writer Rory Stewart — former UK Secretary of State for International Development and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast — made a profound discovery about leadership while working with GiveDirectly.