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,[…]
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.
Rooted in Vedic philosophy, “anupalabdhi” — or “non-apprehension” — can help you exploit gaps in the market.
Defamiliarization is a common tool in the arts. Here we learn how seeing things from a different angle can lead to billion-dollar success.