Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz is a partner and the Director of Research at investment firm Nightview Capital. A former investigative journalist, with bylines in The New Yorker, GQ, Fast Company, among other[…]
“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.”
Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex graduated from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and[…]
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How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.
Dr. Robbie Mochrie is an economics teacher, writer, and the author of How to Think Like an Economist.
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.