Eric Markowitz
@EricMarkowitz

Writing a book about the world's most enduring companies, OUTLAST, for @ScribnerBooks — coming 2027. Investor @ Nightview. | Long Game columnist @BigThink.

 Follow the OUTLAST journey.
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Joined September 2009
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How helping your rivals makes you harder to beat

Published in partnership with @bigthink for The Long Game column. On the morning of May 23, 1925, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the small hot spring town of Kinosaki, near the coast of the Sea of

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The Radical Act of Slowing Down

I want to tell you two stories. The first begins in 1921, when a traveling salesman named William Barnard, nicknamed “Papa,” walked door to door in Ohio selling a twenty-five-cent can opener. He
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Sharp tools; sharp minds

A few weeks ago, I toured a large American manufacturing facility that produces precision parts. I was handed a pair of safety glasses and yellow Styrofoam earplugs, and we wound our way through

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Where The Human Brain (Still) Has An Edge over AI

[Originally published in 2024] In 1928, the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming returned from a two-week vacation and realized he had made a significant oversight. In his haste to leave for his

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It Was Never About AI (We Are Not Our Tools)

Let me tell you how this works. A twenty-six-year-old quantitative analyst at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan—a person who has never managed an employee, never sat across from a customer, never had

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Why I’m writing OUTLAST: A book about resilience across business—and life

I’m writing a book called OUTLAST, to be published by Scribner, the flagship imprint of Simon & Schuster—with translations planned across Europe, Asia, and South America. Below is the official

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