Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Alexis Ohanian didn’t treat his relationships with the media as purely transactional — and his star rose in spectacular fashion.

Reality TV star, music producer, and serial entrepreneur JoJo Simmons on the power of listening and the massive benefits of switching off.

A neuroscientist, a psychologist, and a psychotherapist discuss how emotions are stories built from old experiences.

A conversation with Annaka Harris on shared perception, experimental science, and why our intuition about consciousness is wrong.

“Who ya gonna believe: me or your own eyes?” Until you can assess your perception, the answer should be neither.

Einstein is credited with saying, "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." What he actually said has a very different meaning.

In the post-AI startup landscape, the role of the entrepreneur will evolve from operator to orchestrator. Are you ready?

“What did you win? You won awkward silence. You won their contempt. You won the first to apologize. When you win an argument, you will lose their confidence, you will lose their respect, you will lose the connection.”

Your body language sends messages before your mouth does. Author Robert Greene and negotiation expert Daniel Shapiro PhD explain the key characteristics of nonverbal power and emotional presence that shape how others perceive you.

From Einstein to Twain, Garson O’Toole investigates the truth behind your favorite — and often misattributed — quotes.

One does not simply make a meme go viral.

Duke sociologist Dr. Christopher Bail on the tech’s potential to foster empathy in an age of division.

“The simplest, most powerful way to reinforce work, not jobs, is to ask people to do something different.”

If you want the best shot at long-term success, it can pay to supplement hot-shots with seasoned industry veterans.

From Apple to Airbnb to OpenAI the generalist mindset has been an invaluable source of advantage — and we can all learn from these successes.