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[…]
▸
6 min
—
with
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.
Stories of child prodigies and the naturally gifted hide the fact that success is built on more than talent alone.
That completely useless thing you want to get rid of — it’s probably more important than you think.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
We often assume that movement means progress and that doing something is better than doing nothing. That is often not true.
For a plan to go as smooth as clockwork, be prepared to pounce on opportunity.
To break “analysis paralysis,” reduce the number of available options — and introduce an element of chance.
Discover the ancient wisdom of not pushing the river.
Intrinsic motivation cannot be imposed on a team — but you can provide the right culture for it to flourish.
If you give yourself and others space to tinker and experiment, then you might create something incredible. Here’s how to do it well.
If you want to achieve new goals, harness your brain’s ability to change chemically, structurally, and functionally.