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Business
The one concept that saved my life
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
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The Big Think Interview
Michael Watkins: You can’t afford to be a dinosaur
"You need to embrace these systems and try out what's going on because if you don't understand it, you really can't hope to help your organization adapt and stay in front of this momentous, world-changing technology."
Michael D. Watkins
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The Long Game
“Slack”: The key to resilience in a world that keeps breaking
In nature, business, and life, survival doesn’t belong to the optimized — it belongs to those with a built-in buffer.
Eric Markowitz
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Business
The future of the “like” button: Thumbs up or thumbs down?
Will platforms continue to offer the like button as an all-purpose tool — or will each of the button’s various functions exist in new forms?
Bob Goodson
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Smart Skills
How losing all my free time forced me to rethink productivity
Unconsidered productivity might leave you moving efficiently in the entirely wrong direction.
Danny Kenny
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Business
“Sense and respond”: How to harness the power of network leadership
The rapid crash of Nokia was triggered when key information gatekeepers became bottlenecks. Here’s the key lesson.
Jeffrey Beeson
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Business
The inner game of long-term investing
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
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