When leaders embrace positive personal energy, everyone feels the benefits — in trust, innovation and creativity.

As AI overwhelms the web, we will need a way to distinguish people from machines.

Cities and organizations alike risk becoming highly efficient — but indistinguishable — unless leaders actively preserve space for imagination and deviation.

Many organizations are missing a key catalyst for excellence — and it’s not a new software program or workplace perk.

Anne Lamott and Neal Allen join us to discuss why embracing constraints can be the best way to find freedom in the craft.

The actor, comedian, and marijuana cultivator on collaboration, success, and overcoming nerves — in business and life.

The "Creativity Pioneers" proving that imagination is a practical tool for social transformation.

I'm definitely a Kitsune, but would a Kitsune actually say that?

Timeless guidance on communication, time management, creativity, and more from some of today’s most influential thinkers.

AI can now generate entire worlds from text prompts. What does this mean for how we think, create, and connect?

Our algorithmic age encourages us to over-index on probabilities — but we should instead exercise our “storythinking brain” and focus on possibilities.

Big Think and the John Templeton Foundation gathered scientists, artists, and storytellers in Los Angeles to explore the power of awe.

David S. Goyer explains how paying attention to mystery, and not brushing it aside, became the foundation for the way he builds stories, characters, and worlds.

There’s bad failure — the kind we ignore or hide — and good failure, which becomes data for future progress. Three experts discuss how to tell the difference.

Our brains weren’t built for the amount of info we deal with now. That’s why scientists have made the case for a “second brain” — a place to dump ideas so you can actually see how they connect later.

Conversations about an imminent "AI bubble" tend to miss the big picture.

Be weird and esoteric because humans are weird and esoteric.

Kuang discusses the rituals, routines, and words of advice that have helped her write six best-selling novels in one decade.

“What's really interesting about neural networks is the way that they think or the way that they operate is a lot like human intuition”

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

If you want a masterclass in making the leap from content creator to business builder, look no further than Davon Moseley — aka Royale Eats.

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

How did Jobs revolutionize tech, not once but continually? Aspiring innovators — and today's Apple — should look to The Bard and seek out singularity.

A preview of the latest novel by the National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson.

If you’ve gotten goosebumps when hearing a story about a stranger’s selfless heroism, or you’ve felt your chest swell at a concert, when the audience’s voice and the musician’s instruments align, you have felt awe. And, according to professor Dacher Keltner, who has spent his life studying it, it’s one of humankind’s most unifying traits:

In most organizations, contradictions are treated as problems to be fixed. But what if they’re actually the point?

It's no wonder great writers swear by messy first drafts.

Marine Tanguy — author and founder/CEO of MTArt Agency — argues that viewing and creating art has profound benefits.

Getting drunk might be bad for you but good for us.

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