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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Some experts take issue with Elon Musk’s frightening warning about AI taking over.
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Andrew Graham-Dixon, who has been called “the most gifted art critic of his generation,” revisits the scandalous, sensational life of Italian painter Caravaggio and finds in it a model for […]
In the seething cesspool of Caravaggio's Rome, violence was a form of advertisement; it let people know you were, so to speak, the wrong guy to f#@k with. Internationally renowned art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon revisits Caravaggio's life as a kind of model for career success in tough times.
Graham, Kerry, Lieberman, and Gore all share the same goal but are moving to differentiate themselves as a way to claim credit for climate action and to appeal to different […]
Gig workers suffer from low pay, wage theft, precariousness, dangerous working conditions, and discrimination.
With "Karla's Choice," Nick Harkaway had an impossible mission: maintain his father’s legacy while staying true to his voice.
Whether we should tear down philosophy’s Berlin Wall and let East and West finally merge depends entirely on what we think philosophy is—and what it’s for.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Historically, astronomers have often named things creatively, bizarrely, and often inaccurately. But which terms are the most egregious?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
“Could you create a god?” Nietzsche's titular character asks in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Semyon Dukach — founding partner of VC firm One Way Ventures — adds balance to the founder mode debate.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Going against the grain is often difficult — but necessary for outperformance over the long-term.
To kickstart innovation follow the insider startup knowledge about charisma, “well-rounded square pegs,” and rock-solid teams.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.
"She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
The One Ring has its own agency and sentience — and it opens up a wonderful philosophy of things beyond our comprehension.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
The concept of burnout is nothing new. But there are ways to prevent burnout and promote greater engagement with work.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
In a nod to its addictive qualities, it was first dubbed “Some More.”