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What made Leonardo da Vinci last wasn’t magic — it was process — and his study of fluids can help us win the long game.
Creative thinkers are unafraid of the ambiguous spaces where innovation often resides — and this trait is vital when navigating change.
The strange, undulating sound of mathematics.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
“It is natural to want to avoid failure. But when we avoid failure, we also avoid discovery and accomplishment."
The platform is a digital Royal Society for today's greatest minds — and it could play an essential role in shaping the next civilization.
Having a vision isn’t enough to be an effective leader.
The marketing guru outlines the current state of brand-building — and highlights four outstanding opportunities for the immediate future.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The cofounder and CEO of red-hot billing platform Metronome unpacks his leadership journey.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
From “crave” packs to Valentine bookings, the world’s first fast-food hamburger chain values innovation from every level of the organization.
Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.
For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?
Will platforms continue to offer the like button as an all-purpose tool — or will each of the button’s various functions exist in new forms?
The rapid crash of Nokia was triggered when key information gatekeepers became bottlenecks. Here’s the key lesson.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
As we shape our future we should ask: Which interpretations of classic sci-fi fables hold sway with today’s powerful tech leaders?
Warren Buffett famously noted that Berkshire Hathaway would “never depend on the kindness of strangers to stay in business.” Startups take note.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Trump may make America great again — just not in the way he had intended.
After drastic cuts to the NIH, the FDA, the NSF, and the DOE, NASA science faces down its smallest budget ever. All of society will suffer.
The founder of GenZ Publishing joins Big Think from the infinitely unfurling confluence of print and digital.
Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.
One of the most original and optimistic thinkers in America sketches some big ideas about what's possible with AI in the next 25 years.
By looking outside the current wave of hype, we can create a framework for weighing up the practical impact of AI on any business.
Spotify's Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.
How the cult hit sci-fi show imagines a “techno-realist” future.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The latest from Peter Leyden's "The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050", an essay series published by Freethink.