Eric Markowitz

Eric Markowitz

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Eric Markowitz is the Managing Partner and Director of Research at Nightview Capital. His forthcoming book, OUTLAST — to be published by Scribner, the flagship imprint of Simon & Schuster and released internationally — explores what long-term thinking looks like in practice by studying the world’s most enduring companies. Before becoming an investor, Eric was a business journalist and SABEW Award winner, with bylines in The New Yorker, Inc., The Atlantic, Newsweek, and others. Today, he writes The Long Game at Big Think, a column on longevity in business and life, and publishes The Nightcrawler, a widely read newsletter for builders, investors, and creatives around the world. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, novelist Rachel Hochhauser, and their two young daughters. Follow him on X, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

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Long-lived companies show that resilience comes not from individual toughness, but from the strength of the systems around us.
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Every generation has faced a version of this moment — the question has never been what our tools can do, but what we choose to do with them.
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What 150-year-old Japanese workshop Kaikado can teach us about finding calm through focus in an age of distraction.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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As we crank up our search for more powerful AI, maybe we should slow down and reimagine the shape and language of intelligence itself.
A person wearing a light-colored cloak stands in a dense, green forest, surrounded by tall trees and moss-covered ground—an ideal setting for quiet reflection and systems thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Former tech founder Scott Britton wants to shatter the binary myth that separates driving ambition from inner development.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Andrew Markell — philosopher, martial artist, and CEO advisor — argues that true endurance comes from desire, ritual, and learning to evolve through chaos.
A collage featuring server racks, a robotic hand reaching for a human hand, and network diagrams, with the text “The Night Crawler” at the top—an homage to Eliezer Yudkowsky’s explorations of AI and human connection.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.