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Business
Meet the philosopher outsmarting me since kindergarten
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
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Business
Are you an effective trailblazer?
Trailblazing isn’t limited to the executive suite: Cultures of disruption happen when people at every level step up to lead change.
James Patterson
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The Long Game
Why the AI “megasystem problem” needs our attention
A conversation with Dr. Susan Schneider on the AI risks we’re not talking about and why the fixation on AGI is misplaced.
Eric Markowitz
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Business
Channel the storytelling genius of Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian
Alexis Ohanian didn’t treat his relationships with the media as purely transactional — and his star rose in spectacular fashion.
Christina Farr
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The frontline manager effect: Why some teams thrive while others burn out
Workplace community is too often dismissed as an HR initiative, when in reality it’s the key to driving business results through frontline employee performance.
JD Dillon
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Business
How to greet the dawn of “future-state predictive intelligence”
Brian Gumbel — President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Dataminr — explores the cutting edge of real-time information analysis.
Mike Hodgkinson
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Business
A postcard from the frontlines of China’s tech boom
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
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