lifelong learning
Fun in business is no laughing matter — it can create a golden strategic advantage and bring serious success in the long term.
Long-lived companies show that resilience comes not from individual toughness, but from the strength of the systems around us.
The actor, comedian, and marijuana cultivator on collaboration, success, and overcoming nerves — in business and life.
The great Chinese philosopher offers a durable and practical blueprint for harmonizing with our work colleagues.
How many stupid acts does it take to make a person stupid?
In this excerpt from Think Like a Mathematician, Junaid Mubeen explains how tiny actions can shape complex systems, revealing the limits of prediction and control in our lives.
What 150-year-old Japanese workshop Kaikado can teach us about finding calm through focus in an age of distraction.
Many top performers start behind — and overtake the early leaders later.
One of the toughest vocational exams in the world requires candidates to memorize 25,000 streets in an area five times the size of Manhattan.
The actor learned control, endurance, and focus on-set. Those lessons became the foundation of his real-world fight with addiction and self-hatred.
Timeless guidance on communication, time management, creativity, and more from some of today’s most influential thinkers.
Too many rich and prominent people turn out to be egotistical jerks: Brad Stulberg argues for a more grounded path towards excellence.
Reading isn’t just writing prep; together, reading and writing help writers think and generate original ideas through extended cognition.
These cultural lies make normal struggle feel like failure. A habit of experimentation makes it feel like progress.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
In an age of polycrisis, argues leadership coach Lisa Bennett, we should spend less time trying to save the world — and focus on savoring it instead.
British entrepreneur Simon Squibb made his fortune and retired — then amassed legions of followers by giving away sharp business advice for free.
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.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Be weird and esoteric because humans are weird and esoteric.
From Charles Schwab to Jensen Huang, great leaders never attribute their success to flawless planning — they point instead to what went wrong.
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.
Former tech founder Scott Britton wants to shatter the binary myth that separates driving ambition from inner development.
Metacognition — the ability to think about your thinking — can help you learn faster and make better decisions.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Reading classic books can teach you as much about the present as the past.
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.