Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

"Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language."

Barry Ritholtz — market commentator, founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and podcast host — shares what really trips investors up.

Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.

"These days, no national news network is trusted by more than half of American adults. And that's a problem."

"Plato would argue that sex in and of itself is not what true love is. Sex can reach a point where you are in union with that person, where you see behind their appearances and you see behind the flesh and you experience something which is more transcendental."

A look inside Mindstate Design Labs' effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.

What can drugs teach us about consciousness?

How the 40-year-old entrepreneur and media mogul learned from his struggles, and why he believes accountability is the real secret to happiness.

Bestselling author Seth Godin urges us to rethink our definition of longevity — and to step back and measure what matters.

Those who know who they are — and what they truly value — refuse to compromise their authentic direction to placate others.

Our brains cling to the bad. This method could help balance the scales.

Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).

We manipulate constantly — but few of us want to be called “manipulative.” Here, ex-Google executive Jenny Wood redefines an unfairly maligned trait.

A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.

Your BS detector might not be as accurate as you think.

"We try to stick to routines and we try to go through very long lists of tasks, often ignoring our mental health in the process. There is a lot more to think about on a daily basis, but our brains haven't evolved."

A fresh view of intelligence — spanning living systems from bacteria to human civilization — challenges the idea that it’s merely problem-solving.

"Everything that we care about, everything we experience, everything we know, we know it through our conscious awareness of it."

The nature of “the mind” is always vast and clear no matter how swamped by information we feel — and leaders can learn to embrace this space.