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Business
The enduring value of a notebook and “long thinking”
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
Starts With A Bang
Light and gravity travel at the same speed, but don’t arrive together
In 2017, a kilonova sent light and gravitational waves across the Universe. Here on Earth, there was a 1.7 second signal arrival delay. Why?
Ethan Siegel
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Mini Philosophy
To become wiser, society must relearn how to fail
Ryan Holiday on why wisdom depends on failure, experimentation, and the courage to admit when we’re wrong.
Jonny Thomson
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13.8
The next great leap in evolution may lie beyond Earth
NASA’s Caleb Scharf talks with Big Think about life’s long experiment in expansion.
Adam Frank
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Business
How to land “the emotional why” of company change
The greatest companies navigate change at speed and make it stick at scale. Here’s how IBM started that journey in 2012.
Phil Gilbert
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The Well
America already has the tools to heal division — we just need to relearn how to use them
Governance scholar and University of Pittsburgh professor Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Ph.D. on the forces that decide whether conflicted nations unify or unravel.
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
John Templeton Foundation
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8mins
The Big Think Interview
Why skill plateaus are inevitable – and how to push past them
“The purpose of a coach is to not be the one to set the goals, but instead to say, "Here are the kinds of goals we can work our way through.””
Atul Gawande
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