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A drawing of a group of people soaring in a plane, embodying cosmism.
High Culture
Cosmism: The 19th-century movement to reach space and immortality
In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
Tim Brinkhof
A stylized, circular target with a bright yellow center, surrounded by red, blue, and white concentric rings on a black background.
Smart Skills
Why your attention keeps slipping away (and how to get it back)
Strengthen your focus like a muscle.
Danny Kenny
A crowd of people, drawn by tourism, faces and photographs the Mona Lisa painting, which is displayed on a wall.
Mini Philosophy
Ian McEwan: “Tourism is a wonderful spectacle of mass derangement.”
Here are three ways to do it better.
Jonny Thomson
Split image: Left side shows a painting of hands peeling apples with a knife; right side features a modern mechanical apple peeler, echoing Jeff DeGraff’s spirit of innovation bridging tradition and progress.
Business
AI will never be a shortcut to wisdom
Real understanding, argues Jeff DeGraff, doesn’t come from outputs — it comes from practice.
Jeff DeGraff
Book cover of "Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth" by Jonas Enander, exploring the mysteries priest black holes hold, next to the text "an excerpt from" on a split blue and beige background.
Books
Centuries before Stephen Hawking, an isolated priest imagined black holes
In this excerpt from "Facing Infinity," Jonas Enander examines how John Michell conceived of "dark stars," or massive bodies with enough gravity to trap light, all the way back in 1783.
Jonas Enander
Angus Fletcher, wearing a plaid shirt, smiles at the camera as he stands in front of a blue, patterned background.
The Long Game
Why your intuition, imagination, and emotion will outlast AI
A dialogue with Angus Fletcher — author of the bestseller "Primal Intelligence" — exploring the unique engines of human progress.
Eric Markowitz
A collage features people using phones, a vintage courtroom scene, and a close-up of mechanical watch parts under tweezers, exploring ancestral bonds, with the title "THE NIGHTCRAWLER" at the top.
Business
Inside my study of the world’s oldest companies
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
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