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The Long Game
“Slack”: The key to resilience in a world that keeps breaking
In nature, business, and life, survival doesn’t belong to the optimized — it belongs to those with a built-in buffer.
Eric Markowitz
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Business
The Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza interview: “As a team, you can accomplish anything”
Want to know how to handle work-life pressure? Big Think asked Warfare co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza.
Tim Brinkhof
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Neuropsych
Inside a neuroscientist’s quest to cure coma
Locked inside their minds, thousands await a cure. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is racing to find it.
Ross Pomeroy
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.
Business
Barry Ritholtz on luck, humility, and how (not) to invest
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
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Thinking
The 1903 letter that’s helped countless people embrace the unknown
"Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language."
Elizabeth Weingarten
Barry Ritholtz, a man in a suit and tie, stands confidently before a blue zigzag line on a light backdrop.
The Long Game
The Barry Ritholtz interview: “Smart is good. Smart and lucky is better”
Barry Ritholtz — market commentator, founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and podcast host — shares what really trips investors up.
Eric Markowitz
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Neuropsych
The next era of psychedelics may be precision-designed states of consciousness
A look inside Mindstate Design Labs' effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.
Saga Briggs
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