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

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The Long Game

“Slack”: The key to resilience in a world that keeps breaking

In nature, business, and life, survival doesn’t belong to the optimized — it belongs to those with a built-in buffer.

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Business

The inner game of long-term investing

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

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Business

“Bootstrapping”: How entrepreneurs can control their own destiny

Warren Buffett famously noted that Berkshire Hathaway would “never depend on the kindness of strangers to stay in business.” Startups take note.

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Business

Barry Ritholtz on luck, humility, and how (not) to invest

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

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Business

The Morissa Schwartz interview: AI and the new media landscape

The founder of GenZ Publishing joins Big Think from the infinitely unfurling confluence of print and digital.

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Business

Why all companies should think beyond Large Language Models

By looking outside the current wave of hype, we can create a framework for weighing up the practical impact of AI on any business.

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The Long Game

The Seth Godin interview: What I learned about the long view from sci-fi legends

Bestselling author Seth Godin urges us to rethink our definition of longevity — and to step back and measure what matters.

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Business

Rebuilding is easy: Rethinking is hard

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

Business

How to rethink education in the age of AI

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

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The Long Game

What if we built something better? When disaster sparks reinvention

The history of catastrophe shows that true resilience comes not from restoration, but from reinvention.

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Business

What I learned over lunch with Warren Buffett

Investor Guy Spier joins Big Think for a chat about the “Oracle of Omaha,” generative AI, what confuses him, and more.

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Business

An investigative approach to stock investing

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

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The Present

How the United States turned the world economy into a battlefield

By weaponizing the global economy, the U.S. initiated a new era of economic warfare and transformed how major powers compete.

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Business

The risk of outsourcing judgment to AI

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

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The Long Game

The hidden cost of AI: Trading long-term resilience for short-term efficiency

Many expect AI to follow a familiar pattern — technological disruption followed by adaptation — but what are we losing in return?

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Business

The “existential crisis” of knowledge work

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

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Business

How tiny experiments can lead to exponential outcomes

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

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Business

Investing in an impermanent world: Lessons from mujō

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

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Business

When research is cheap, conviction becomes priceless

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

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Business

How John Doerr used football to land OKRs

The legendary investor explains the transformative Objectives and Key Results goal-setting framework with an imaginary Super Bowl strategy.

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Business

Leaders: Your well-being fix should be your highest priority

Major League Baseball and Ivy League research confirm that tackling well-being is hard work — but well worth the effort.

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Business

The rising value of in-person connection

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

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Business

We can’t “de-bias” our brains but we can change our systems

By designing smart systems, we can help ourselves live up to our best intentions — and perform even better in our workplaces.

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Business

Investing in the next generation of AI

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

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Business

Why AI for business means a revolution in efficiency

Philosopher and author Christopher DiCarlo outlines the key areas where AI continues to reshape the labor landscape.

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Business

The inside story of NVIDIA

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

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The Long Game

Lessons from the “pain cave”: What marathoners can teach investors

Resilience isn’t just about pain and perseverance — it’s about embracing the journey.

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Business

Sam Altman: The superintelligent robots are coming

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

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Strange Maps

Mapped: How Europe’s wealth has shifted since 1900

In 1900, the UK clearly was the richest country in Europe. That’s no longer the case.