Ness Labs Meetups 2024

Hi friends, I’m organizing a series of meetups around the world this Spring and Summer, and I’d love for you to join me. We’ll talk about wellbeing at work, staying curious, lifelong learning, and mindful productivity. It’s a chance for people like us who love to learn and share ideas to get together in a … Read More

The Self-Motivation Toolkit: How to Stay Curious and Committed

Motivation is a fickle friend. One day, you’re bursting with energy and enthusiasm, tackling your projects with a sense of flow. The next, you find yourself stuck in a rut, struggling to muster the drive to get anything done. It’s a frustrating cycle that can leave you feeling helpless and unproductive. This is especially true … Read More

The Illusion of Productivity: Why We Are Addicted to Busyness

Ever since humans have learned to write, we have documented how special we are and how we differ from other animals. Imagination, morality, and culture are traits thought to only be found in humans. Another aspect that seems to be uniquely human is the need to keep busy. Most animals would be happy if their … Read More

Human Curiosity in the Age of AI

Curiosity has been a driving force behind our species’ remarkable success. By pushing us to question the status quo and explore the unknown, this innate desire to learn has sparked some of our greatest achievements—and shaped the course of human history. In a world where AI is rapidly transforming our lives, it may seem obvious … Read More

Supercharge your thinking with the co-founders of Beloga

Beloga offers multi-source knowledge management to offer hyper-contextualized insights, streamline workflows, and make information retrieval easy. In this interview, we talked about addressing the challenges of knowledge management and transfer, cultivating an environment conducive to innovation, and their vision of building a world where information is effortlessly accessible and where we can all work at the speed of thought.

Intentional Curiosity: Get your Brain to Focus on What Matters

Intentional curiosity is the ability to direct your attention towards information inside or outside of you in a deliberate way. In other words, curiosity helps us direct our limited attentional resources to the most important stimuli within our attentional field.

Ness Labs Best Books of March 2024

What should you read this month? This is your March 2024 guide to discovering the most insightful, inspiring, and transformative books on mindful productivity, creative growth, holistic ambition, and developing a healthier relationship with work.

Rediscovering Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life

I lived in Japan for seven months when I was younger. For all of the challenges I faced there as a woman and a foreigner, I still learned a lot from Japanese culture. Because Japan experienced a long period of relative isolation from the outside world — caused by sakoku (literally “closed country”), the isolationist … Read More