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Simon Squibb, a middle-aged man in a blue shirt, stands outdoors in an urban setting, holding a small microphone with his arms crossed.
Business
The art of the hook: How Simon Squibb redefines influence
British entrepreneur Simon Squibb made his fortune and retired — then amassed legions of followers by giving away sharp business advice for free.
Lucy Tobin
Aerial view of a river delta with branching waterways, shaped by natural intelligence, flowing into the sea and surrounded by green and brown land.
Business
A new way to think about intelligence
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
A crowd of people wearing sunglasses looks upward; Brendan Foody is featured on the left side of the image, where a rising line graph appears on a dark background.
Business
Inside the meteoric rise of Mercor
AI “eval” outfit Mercor is one of the fastest growing companies in history. But will their rocket run out of fuel? Big Think investigates.
Aaron Mok
Book cover for "Cut Through: The Pitch and Presentation Playbook" by Dominic Colenso, featuring Dominic Colenso's name in bold black text on a yellow background with a rightward arrow.
Business
How to harness the Trojan Horse of presenting skills
To win over any audience you need to master “cut-through” — former TV and film actor Dominic Colenso wants to give you the secret sauce.
Dominic Colenso
Three hands, each in different colors and styles, stack on top of each other over a red, chart-patterned cutout against a gray grid background, reflecting the spirit of collaboration seen in current leadership development trends.
Big Think+
Five recommendations that will reshape leadership development in 2026
What 158 L&D leaders told us about the future of leadership development.
Lavinia Mehedintu
Book cover titled "The End of Driving: Automated Cars, Robotaxis, Sharing vs Owning, and the Future of Mobility" by Bern Grush, John S. Niles, and Andrew Miller, Second Edition.
Books
Robotaxis offer a path toward smarter and fairer urban mobility
Robotaxis can transform cities by improving mobile efficiency, equity, and safety — if cities adopt policies that prioritize the public good.
Bern Grush , John Niles & Andrew Miller
A silver space pen with its cap removed appears to write swirling white lines against a blue, starry background.
Business
Why we overcomplicate things
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
Book cover titled "The Bonfire Moment" with a diagonal gradient line, inspired by Bob Taylor’s collaborative spirit, and text: "Bring Your Team Together To Solve The Hardest Problems Startups Face" by Martin Gonzalez & Josh Yellin.
Business
Collaboration masterclass: How to wrangle disagreements like Bob from Xerox
Tech legend Bob Taylor — a pioneer of the computing revolution — figured out the genius of framing two types of disagreement.
Martin Gonzalez & Joshua Yellin
A person wearing a light-colored cloak stands in a dense, green forest, surrounded by tall trees and moss-covered ground—an ideal setting for quiet reflection and systems thinking.
Business
The 14 rules for navigating complex systems
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
Tim O'Reilly, an older man with short gray hair wearing a light blue button-up shirt, stands outdoors with arms crossed, surrounded by green trees.
Business
“Surfing the edge”: Tim O’Reilly on how humans can thrive with AI
Media trailblazer Tim O’Reilly tells Big Think why AI requires "get yourself dirty" work — and warns us not to buy the hype.
Tim Cooper
An ostrich with its head buried in a grid-patterned yellow floor against a matching grid-patterned wall.
The Present
The rise of AI denialism
Conversations about an imminent "AI bubble" tend to miss the big picture.
Louis Rosenberg
Book cover titled "Culture Design: How to Build a High-Performing, Resilient Organization with Purpose" by James D. White and Krista White. Abstract yellow and blue shapes below inspire ways to fortify culture.
Business
Find your own tomato war: How to fortify culture through ritual
Not every company holds an annual food skirmish like OGC — but designing rituals with intentionality can strengthen your corporate soul.
James D. White & Krista White
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Members
Class
How to Afford Anything
Personal finance expert Paula Pant says you can afford almost anything if you recognize that every money choice involves a trade-off.
Paula Pant
Two people discuss information on a digital tablet, with abstract yellow and white geometric patterns overlaid as they consider the implications of AI reckoning.
Business
Will AI decimate consulting?
AI has brought a reckoning to the consulting industry — and the death knell will quickly sound for those who fail to adapt.
Andrea Belk Olson
A man in a suit with half of his face and head illustrated as mechanical gears and machinery, blending human and robot features.
8mins
The Big Think Interview
3 challenges that AI integration presents in the workplace
“I've started to think about three puzzles we need to solve for as we bring these technologies into our organizations.”
Martin Gonzalez
Three men in business attire and jackets stand before a collage background, featuring downward-trending graph lines on green paper, each displaying a CEO superpower as they navigate challenging markets.
Business
How the best CEOs turn setbacks into superpowers
From Charles Schwab to Jensen Huang, great leaders never attribute their success to flawless planning — they point instead to what went wrong.
Mark Thompson
A split image shows a person typing on a laptop on the left and gridlocked cars on the right, set against connected nodes and letters—a visual nod to Jack Nilles, pioneer of telecommuting.
Business
Remote control: Meet “the father of telework”
Decades before COVID imposed remote work on the world, Jack Nilles pioneered WFH and championed its many benefits.
Jordan Friedman
An orange hydrofoil boat glides across the water in front of a city skyline with tall buildings, resembling the sleek motion of flying boats.
The Future
Why wait for flying cars? Flying boats are already here.
The case for robotaxis on the water.
Sampriti Bhattacharyya
Abstract collage with network nodes, a vintage gear, a textured gray circle, and green gears on a graph background, divided into four colored quadrants.
The Future
The common thread of progress
An introduction to "The Engine of Progress" from Jason Crawford, founder of the Roots of Progress Institute.
Jason Crawford
Two people sit in wicker chairs outdoors, holding microphones and having a conversation about energy abundance. Other people are visible in the blurred background.
The Future
Powering progress: The quest for energy abundance
Barriers to energy abundance — and how to overcome them — were front and center at Progress Conference 2025.
Grant Mulligan
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