The truly talented are those who got to where they are despite preconceived expectations.
Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a staff writer at Big Think, where he writes about philosophy, theology, psychology,[…]
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[…]
Do you always act professionally in the workplace? Depends what you mean by “professional.”
Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a staff writer at Big Think, where he writes about philosophy, theology, psychology,[…]
Rhetorical mastery is within everyone’s reach — equipped with some basic techniques you can rock it like Aristotle.
Redemption is the journey towards becoming a better person. It’s the story of human life.
The benefits of learning with guidance are clear — but the expert and the novice must have a shared understanding of the goal.
The road from Kant to modern cognitive psychology has taught us much about our mental filtering systems.
Schopenhauer and Freud can help teams navigate the most prickly of collaboration problems.
Taco Thursdays and free yoga have their limits — for lasting workplace happiness leaders need to think about purpose.
Nobody likes the uneasy feeling of being watched — so can there be any workplace benefit to the all-seeing eye?
Voltaire’s wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
Leadership evasion might seem like a plan for workplace freedom but it isn’t a good thing — it’s a denial of opportunity.
Bob Dylan gave us the paradoxical gem “there’s no success like failure, and failure’s no success at all.” He had a point.