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Book cover for "Irresistible Change: A Blueprint for Earning Buy-In and Breakout Success" by Phil Gilbert, featuring “an excerpt from Phil Gilbert” text set against a purple background.
The greatest companies navigate change at speed and make it stick at scale. Here’s how IBM started that journey in 2012.
Scott Britton, in business attire, sits cross-legged on a desk meditating, while blurred figures move in the background.
Former tech founder Scott Britton wants to shatter the binary myth that separates driving ambition from inner development.
solar system model
Scientists are notoriously resistant to new ideas. Are they falling prey to groupthink? Or are our current theories just that successful?
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20mins
“It's certainly clear that the issues of boys and men haven't gone away in the last few years. If anything, they're getting even more attention, which is good when it's the right kind of attention.”
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
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Arianna Huffington argues that true success should encompass well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving, rather than just wealth and power, challenging the notion that sacrificing happiness and working excessively defines achievement.
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Empathy and cooperation are essential for success, as the quality of personal and professional lives hinges on the complexity of relationships, which require effective listening, communication, and conflict management from both parties, according to Todd Davis of FranklinCovey.
A collage features a man in academic regalia at a podium, a black-and-white rural village, ants, and the words “THE NIGHTCRAWLER” in bold text at the top, evoking the art of reason amid contrasting scenes.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
planck temperature polarization
The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there's one piece of evidence we can't ignore that shows otherwise.
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“There's research showing that people who are curious, who ask questions, are not just happier, they're not just more successful, they also live longer.”
A hand pulls a green book from a library shelf, surrounded by tsundoku—the gentle art of collecting more books than you can read—with the silhouette of a person formed from the bookshelf and books.
The Japanese practice of "tsundoku" bestows joy and lasting benefits to those who make books an important part of their lives.
A woman sits in a Victorian-style room, reading a large book of classic books. She is surrounded by bookshelves, decorative objects, and a curtained window letting in natural light.
These short books offer insights and meditations on timeless themes, without the time commitment.
Book cover of "Blindspotting: How to See What's Holding You Back as a Leader" by Martin Dubin, featuring the word "blindspotting" and “an excerpt from” on a purple background.
You might love your leadership role and inspire fierce loyalty — but what if that comes at the expense of a disastrous balance sheet? Here’s a way forward.
A slot machine displays various icons, including brains, cherries, a clover, and the number seven—an homage to Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s work—with two brains and a seven visible in the central row.
Stuck on a hamster wheel of mindless social media scrolling? Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains how to consciously redirect your reward system.
gravitational wave effects on spacetime
With over 300 high-significance gravitational wave detections, we now have a huge unsolved puzzle. Will we invest in finding the solution?
Two colorful, semi-transparent spheres, one blue and one red, represent a possible top quark bound state, toponium, surrounded by small particles inside a cloudy, circular enclosure.
Can the top quark, the shortest-lived particle of all, bind with anything else? Yes it can! New results at the LHC demonstrate toponium exists.
A human skull and bone rest beside colorful flowers and sheet music in a detailed memento mori still life composition.
A mid-flight scare reveals how embracing death can bring purpose and meaning to everyday life.
Infographic displays spacecraft names and missions around the Sun, planets, and moons, illustrating the current and planned science fleet exploring the Solar System.
Over the first half of 2025, the US has cut science as never before. This disaster for American science may be a gift to the rest of the world.
A dense star field and distant galaxies with bright galaxy clusters and several white squares highlighting specific points in the image.
For hundreds of millions of years, a cosmic fog blocked all signs of starlight. At last, JWST found the galaxies that cleared that fog away.