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[…]
Fibonacci’s “Liber Abaci” not only revolutionized commerce — it also helped nudge the world towards reasoned, quantitative enquiry.
Author and economist David McWilliams is an Adjunct Professor of Global Economics at Trinity College Dublin. He writes a weekly column for The Irish Times, and his books include The History[…]
How did Jobs revolutionize tech, not once but continually? Aspiring innovators — and today’s Apple — should look to The Bard and seek out singularity.
Angus Fletcher is a Professor of Story Science and Director of the Leadership Initiative at the Ohio State Fisher College of Business. His new book is the instant national bestseller,[…]
How would you feel about working like a Lutheran or a Cistercian?
When all your teammates fall for “the emperor’s new clothes,” the results can be disastrous — here’s how to bust the groupthink.
At work we’re often asked to be decisive — but how can we make an informed choice without complete information?
It’s time for an honest conversation.
We were not born to stagnate — the point of life (and work) is to go somewhere.
If the daily grind feels like Sartre’s phony act of “bad faith,” Heidegger’s sense of “being” can help redefine your role.
How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
Ways to move forward when you’re wrong and I’m right.
Neuroscience supports the notion that an escape from conventional perspectives can be a gateway to spectacular insights.
Prolonged and repetitive tasks rewire us in profound ways – which can be a force for good at work.