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If you have any sort of power for any reasonable length of time, you will be changed by it — awareness of the effects is crucial.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
There’s little more infuriating in the world than being told to “calm down” when you’re in the midst of a simmering grump.
How can "you" move on when the old "you" is gone?
In his latest book, Malcolm Gladwell explores a strange phenomenon of group dynamics.
Reading this article would be such a millennial thing to do.
"I am free. It's a lot of effort to be free from the prison that is in your mind, and the key is in your pocket." - Edith Eva Eger
Don't make the mistake of blindly following quantitative metrics — whether you're helping clients or looking for lunch.
"Amid the chaos, he remembered his life being eerily calm as he knew it wasn’t if, but when they would be hacked to pieces. He just kept kicking."
People often say, "Let go," or, "Don't take things to heart." But where's the line with this philosophy?
To maintain momentum and flow, the great novelist Ernest Hemingway didn’t burn himself out — but learned when to put his work down.
Changing the narrative on false memories might be surprisingly simple.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Research suggests curiosity triggers parts of the brain associated with anticipation, making answers more rewarding once discovered.
Cecilie Fjellhøy, from the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, shares her experience.
It's hard to know what other people know. But it's not impossible.
The digital world will always entail risks for teens, but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t without recourse.
Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki discusses the dangers of cynicism and how skepticism can invigorate our relationships and communities.
Meet the scientist mixing mentalism with principles from positive psychology and the science of human potential.
How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.
Desire is like a drug. But is an addict always an addict?
Thinking of a number between one and ten? Here's how predictable human responses create the illusion of telepathy.
"When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset."
A simple semantic device — invented by a forgotten senator — can help us break “the curse of knowledge.”
Hospice nurse Julie McFadden shares three examples where people hold off death, just for a bit.
How do you cope when joining a team shatters your confidence? Albert Camus and Harry Stack Sullivan can help.
Unraveling the subtle mechanics of luck can help us better steer the wheel of fortune.
Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein drew inspiration from psychologists as well as their own children, becoming more understanding parents in the process.
What are we supposed to do when experts look at the same data yet reach starkly different conclusions?
"I know what you're thinking" can sound kind or creepy — depending on who's saying it.