How Video Games Will Save the World

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If your world-beating idea is not working you might need to change direction — and Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom provides the perfect case study.

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

Rediscovering competition in an unexpected place helped her rewrite what was possible — and go on to win gold.

A meditation on quantum physics, creative endurance, and the unseen forces that shape what lasts.