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Why the advertising legend — and author of Alchemy — believes that inefficiency can be genius and insects can unlock innovation.
"Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions."
When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.
How black and white is your thinking?
The psychology of people who cut off all communication—and how that affects their partners.
When it comes to behavior, genetics may play a larger role than you think.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
If you're an atheist with a vocation, who laid that path for you?
Listen, set boundaries, and point them where to go.
If you have any sort of power for any reasonable length of time, you will be changed by it — awareness of the effects is crucial.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
There’s little more infuriating in the world than being told to “calm down” when you’re in the midst of a simmering grump.
How can "you" move on when the old "you" is gone?
In his latest book, Malcolm Gladwell explores a strange phenomenon of group dynamics.
Reading this article would be such a millennial thing to do.
"I am free. It's a lot of effort to be free from the prison that is in your mind, and the key is in your pocket." - Edith Eva Eger
Don't make the mistake of blindly following quantitative metrics — whether you're helping clients or looking for lunch.
"Amid the chaos, he remembered his life being eerily calm as he knew it wasn’t if, but when they would be hacked to pieces. He just kept kicking."
People often say, "Let go," or, "Don't take things to heart." But where's the line with this philosophy?
To maintain momentum and flow, the great novelist Ernest Hemingway didn’t burn himself out — but learned when to put his work down.
Changing the narrative on false memories might be surprisingly simple.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Research suggests curiosity triggers parts of the brain associated with anticipation, making answers more rewarding once discovered.
Cecilie Fjellhøy, from the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, shares her experience.
Fun in business is no laughing matter — it can create a golden strategic advantage and bring serious success in the long term.
It's hard to know what other people know. But it's not impossible.
The digital world will always entail risks for teens, but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t without recourse.
Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki discusses the dangers of cynicism and how skepticism can invigorate our relationships and communities.
Meet the scientist mixing mentalism with principles from positive psychology and the science of human potential.
How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.