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The outrageously accomplished magician-inventor-author chats to Big Think about fear, multitasking, and successful work-life reinvention.
As US science faces record cuts to funding, jobs, and facilities, these 10 quotes help remind us how science brings value to us all.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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.
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"The disease is the fact that liberalism, which used to be an ideology of building, has become an ideology of blocking."
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?
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"You need to embrace these systems and try out what's going on because if you don't understand it, you really can't hope to help your organization adapt and stay in front of this momentous, world-changing technology."
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.