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Book cover for "Unstoppable Entrepreneurs" by Lori Rosenkopf, featuring a torn paper effect revealing an orange circle with text about bootstrapping startups and innovation, published by Wharton School Press.
Warren Buffett famously noted that Berkshire Hathaway would “never depend on the kindness of strangers to stay in business.” Startups take note.
A person sits on a chair in front of a white backdrop in a loft-style room with brick walls, dark flooring, and two windows.
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"The more uncertain and scary things get in the world, the more we as humans are drawn to simple dichotomies."
In all the known Universe, Earth is the only planet known to have native life. What should guide us in expanding humanity beyond our world?
Book cover of "Target Earth" by Govert Schilling, featuring a meteor streaking toward Earth—a striking visual of cosmic catastrophe—set against space, clouds below, and an orange background.
If an asteroid hadn't killed off the dinosaurs, humans would almost certainly have never walked the Earth.
A collage with graphs, a flower, a container ship, and a hand giving a thumbs-up—hinting at lucky investors—overlaid with the title “THE NIGHTCRAWLER” in bold letters at the top.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
A small person stands at the base of a large staircase with the words "IT STARTS HERE" in bold black letters on a yellow background.
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"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."
particle physics destroy universe
Empty space itself, the quantum vacuum, could be in either a true, stable state or a false, unstable state. Our fate depends on the answer.