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Why fixing your gadgets often costs more than replacing them

A broken laptop hinge revealed a broader shift in how modern products are designed, sold, and owned

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Transform Your Organization with AI

AI expert and insitro CEO Daphne Koller shares her insights about developing the vision and strategy needed to optimize your enterprise AI deployments.

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True Ingredients of Successful Leadership

In the operating room, success isn’t about one person but the teamwork behind them. Surgeon Atul Gawande says those lessons under pressure apply far beyond medicine.

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The inner game of long-term investing

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

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What do King Charles III, the Pope, and Canadian Inuit have in common?

Meet the world's largest landowners.

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