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,[…]
“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed,” advised Stoic philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. He had a point.
“You’re not punished for failing, you’re punished for not trying.” Former Uber exec Emil Michael on how to truly achieve success.
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