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Spotify’s Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.

A look inside Mindstate Design Labs’ effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.

What can drugs teach us about consciousness?

When you enter someone’s home, you learn how life is lived elsewhere.

We need more science fiction-inspired thinking in how we approach AI research, argues AI expert Gary Marcus.

You got your promotion — but managing the pressure inherent to your elevated role is now a crucial part of your job.

Robert Waldinger, Zen priest and Harvard professor, explains why fulfillment isn’t about reaching an idealized state. It’s found in everyday acts of kindness and compassion.

Performance psychology reveals the mental techniques elite athletes use to build and maintain their confidence.

If humanity lives in an otherwise barren Universe, we’ll have to forge philosophy that fills the void.

Your teams need authentic caregiving, not an insincere plan to merely check all of the well-being boxes.

Today’s philosophy students would be justified in asking, “What does any of this have to do with living?”

Astronomer Adam Frank reflects on some responses to his recent appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast.

Radically improve your work-life speaking and presentation skills with a technique used by musicians and brand-name politicians.

Pleasure, virtue, and doubt are necessary, but each is insufficient on its own.

An evidence-based policy movement is arming the fight with tools and programs that are more effective than ever before.

“If we’re to be happy at all, it has to be found outside of this notion of pleasure. We have to step beyond hedonia. But the problem is that we risk going too far.”

Will “Sausage Party” survive the test of time?

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

Our classical intuition is no good in a quantum Universe. To make sense of it, we need to learn, and apply, an entirely novel set of rules.

We need a “theory that explains the evolution of evolution,” argues theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker.

There are a few small cosmic details that, if things were just a little different, wouldn’t have allowed our existence to be possible.

Whether your hair is straight, wavy, curly, or kinky isn’t just genetic in nature. It depends on the physics of your hair’s very atoms.

Here’s the dark side of first contact.

“The field is endless, but my life is limited, as are all of ours. But you do what you can with your time,” says CSO Mart Saarma.

“I am free. It’s a lot of effort to be free from the prison that is in your mind, and the key is in your pocket.” – Edith Eva Eger

Electric vehicle sales are rising but public charging in cities is still lacking.

Studying why innovation clusters form can shed light on how to better promote research and growth.

Meet the ‘brain coach’ who has found a way to flip negative thoughts and actions and use them for good We’re all assigned a label at some point in our […]

The co-founder of Wired magazine shares his insights on how a long-term mindset can shape a brighter, more innovative future.

It’s a problem on both sides of the political divide.