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

"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."

In nature, business, and life, survival doesn’t belong to the optimized — it belongs to those with a built-in buffer.

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?

Unconsidered productivity might leave you moving efficiently in the entirely wrong direction.

"It's a true fact, but a bizarre one, that the reason why hundreds of thousands of people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki rather than Kyoto and Kokura, is because of a 19-year-old vacation and a passing cloud."

What happens when scientists "write what they know"? Some amazing science fiction stories.

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

It's time to invest in your rest.

"There's a long history of people claiming planets which look Earth-like, Earth 2.0, Earth twins."

Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.

"The more uncertain and scary things get in the world, the more we as humans are drawn to simple dichotomies."

"Being aware of your mindsets is the difference between living a conscious life, where you're making choices in accord with what you actually want and going where you actually wanna go, versus being on autopilot and having those mindsets subconsciously drive all of your decisions."

"Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language."

Barry Ritholtz — market commentator, founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and podcast host — shares what really trips investors up.

From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.

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.

Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.

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.

We understand many things about our Universe, and our home within it, extremely well. The number of stars in the Milky Way isn't among them.

Networking — not zombie-crunching your job applications — gives you a better chance of getting sourced or referred for a role.

How the cult hit sci-fi show imagines a “techno-realist” future.

The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit "Pantheon."

Those who know who they are — and what they truly value — refuse to compromise their authentic direction to placate others.

Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.

Our brains cling to the bad. This method could help balance the scales.

Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).

A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.