Eric Markowitz

Managing Partner, Nightview Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Markowitz directs equity research and decision-making for The Nightview Fund, applying investigative techniques developed during his career writing for Inc., The New Yorker, and Newsweek. He writes the newsletter The Nightcrawler and the Long Game column for Big Think, and authored the book OUTLAST on business longevity.

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Insight

Markowitz: Spreading bets too thin prevents creating meaningful outcomes

“Because if you spread your bets too thin, you're never really gonna. Create anything meaningful.”

Eric Markowitz Aug 28, 2024 ▶ 29:31 A Longterm Investor Looks Sudden Death In The Face — With Eric Markowitz

Insight

Markowitz: Buy-and-hold only works with constant short-term tweaking

“Buy and hold, like, only works if you're, like, constantly tweaking in the short term and Constantly improving to enable like the buy and hold mindset in life.”

Eric Markowitz Aug 28, 2024 ▶ 33:40 A Longterm Investor Looks Sudden Death In The Face — With Eric Markowitz

Opinion

Markowitz: Going all-in on index funds is very risky

“That also doesn't mean like go all in on like index funds, which I think is also very risky.”

Eric Markowitz Aug 28, 2024 ▶ 39:26 A Longterm Investor Looks Sudden Death In The Face — With Eric Markowitz

Insight

Markowitz: Long-term compounding is a fragile privilege rather than a guarantee

“Thinking and acting long-term is really, really important, but on a deeper level, it's not guaranteed. None of it is guaranteed. And so anything can derail the long-term at any point. And so for me, it was a real like wake up call of, you know, it's a real pri…”

Eric Markowitz Aug 28, 2024 ▶ 20:31 A Longterm Investor Looks Sudden Death In The Face — With Eric Markowitz

Insight

Markowitz: Subtracting intensity and commitments creates greater potential for better outcomes

“The more you subtract and the less intense you are, the greater potential for better outcomes.”

Eric Markowitz Aug 28, 2024 ▶ 26:26 A Longterm Investor Looks Sudden Death In The Face — With Eric Markowitz

Insight

Markowitz: Forcing success and over-striving prevents actual compounding from occurring

“Like so many things in life, you can't force things like you can't force relationships. You can't force you can't force success. And I think looking back and not just in 20, 22, but like, you know, probably a lot of my professional life there was a lot of like…”

Eric Markowitz Aug 28, 2024 ▶ 26:47 A Longterm Investor Looks Sudden Death In The Face — With Eric Markowitz

Opinion

Markowitz: Chronic Stress Compromised Immune System, Causing Brain Infection

“And I think from like a very simplistic level, I think that my immune system was shot. I think it worked out. And I think that you know, the, that stress can kill. And it's a little bit vague how it can kill, but this is one example of how I think it could, wh…”

Eric Markowitz Aug 28, 2024 ▶ 34:46 A Longterm Investor Looks Sudden Death In The Face — With Eric Markowitz

Insight

Markowitz: Anyone Preaching a Universal Health Formula Is Probably Lying

“Anyone who has, like, preached, like, they have the, The right, you know, formula is probably lying to some extent. I think it's I think it's an iterative process itself of like figuring out what sleep cadence, the food stress levels.”

Eric Markowitz Aug 28, 2024 ▶ 36:08 A Longterm Investor Looks Sudden Death In The Face — With Eric Markowitz

Insight

Markowitz: Multi-decade investing should prioritize 50-year survival over 30% growth

“I think modern culture spends too much time focusing on growth and not enough on survival. And when you focus so much on growth, the key metrics you're trying to hit are top line numbers, like something that can grow at 30%, right? What, in my mind, maybe a be…”

Eric Markowitz Aug 28, 2024 ▶ 40:19 A Longterm Investor Looks Sudden Death In The Face — With Eric Markowitz

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Markowitz: Brain Abscess Treatment Required IV Antibiotics Nine Times Daily

“In the weeks and months that followed, I had to do like really intense intravenous antibiotics to begin with nine times a day. So I had a port in my arm, and then I had a port in my chest, and after even I was discharged from the hospital, I would have to give…”

Eric Markowitz Aug 28, 2024 ▶ 17:07 A Longterm Investor Looks Sudden Death In The Face — With Eric Markowitz

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
A Longterm Investor Looks Sudden Death In The Face — With Eric Markowitz	Aug 28, 2024	28m

Eric Markowitz

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