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A collage with the text "THE NIGHTCRAWLER," featuring a hand holding money, coins, and a windowed building, all tinted in pink and black tones.
Business
Money as the dark matter of the Universe
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
A person inspects a large, cylindrical section of a Higgs factory tunnel lined with metal pipes, cables, and equipment—a crucial site for particle physics research.
Starts With A Bang
The fastest, cheapest particle physics path to a Higgs factory
A next-generation collider is required for studying particle physics at the frontiers. Here's the fastest, cheapest way to get it done.
Ethan Siegel
Collage with a man in a suit, stacked mugs, an upside-down creature, dice, and the text "THE NIGHTCRAWLER" at the top on a dark grid background—hinting at the power of intuition amid surreal imagery.
Business
The importance of intuition and the limits of rationalism
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
A graphic with the text "an excerpt from" beside the book cover of "The Cybernetic Society" by Amir Husain, featuring a cityscape, robotic arms, and a nod to the rise of the modern cybernetic corporation.
Business
Why your next CEO could be a machine
Are you ready for the “cybernetic corporation”? Amir Husain “profiles” the hottest company of 2035 — and makes a telling comparison with Nvidia.
Amir Husain
A hexagonal telescope with a gold exterior and an open, black interior is shown against a black background, highlighting NASA habitable worlds observatory science.
Starts With A Bang
NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory: the future (or end) of NASA science
At the end of July, hundreds of scientists convened to plan NASA's upcoming astrophysics flagship mission. Will the US allow it to happen?
Ethan Siegel
A silhouette of a person playing the trumpet symbolizes jazzy leadership, overlaid on a blue and white world map with radiating lines and data points.
Business
What all leaders can learn from jazz-inspired military trailblazers
In most organizations, contradictions are treated as problems to be fixed. But what if they’re actually the point?
Jeff DeGraff
A digital collage with overlapping purple-tinted images, including a traditional building and a sculpture, explores panpsychism under the title "The Nightcrawler" on a black grid background.
Business
On consciousness, AI, and panpsychism
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
Book cover of "Blindspotting: How to See What's Holding You Back as a Leader" by Martin Dubin, featuring the word "blindspotting" and “an excerpt from” on a purple background.
Business
How McClelland’s 3 universal motives can illuminate your blindspots
You might love your leadership role and inspire fierce loyalty — but what if that comes at the expense of a disastrous balance sheet? Here’s a way forward.
Martin Dubin
A graphic titled "The Night Crawler" features grayscale and red-tinted images of two men, one writing and one smiling—possibly Brad Feld—overlaid on a grid background with abstract shapes.
Business
The art of mentorship and long-term thinking
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
gravitational wave effects on spacetime
Starts With A Bang
LIGO’s heaviest black hole demands next-generation science
With over 300 high-significance gravitational wave detections, we now have a huge unsolved puzzle. Will we invest in finding the solution?
Ethan Siegel
Book cover for "The Generalist Advantage" by Mansoor Soomro, PhD, next to text reading "an excerpt from," all set against a light green background—highlighting the value of generalist superpowers.
Business
The 6 superpowers of generalists: Leadership gold dust
From Apple to Airbnb to OpenAI the generalist mindset has been an invaluable source of advantage — and we can all learn from these successes.
Mansoor Soomro
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