This archive page lists the last 100 articles in the Ness Labs library by date and title. Articles are listed in reverse chronological order with the newest articles at the top and the oldest ones at the bottom. If you want to read the best articles first, you can also explore the library by thematic categories.
- Should we really focus on one thing at a time?
- Negative capability: how to embrace intellectual uncertainty
- Procrastination triggers: eight reasons why you procrastinate
- The Praise Paradox: when well-intended words backfire
- The framing effect: how the way information is framed impacts our decisions
- Hotkeys: how to customize your shortcuts in Roam Research
- Building an infinite canvas for your thoughts with Julia Pierce, Director at Scapple
- Decision fatigue: how a burden of choices leads to irrational trade-offs
- Exploring the power of mind mapping with Michael Hollauf, co-founder of Meister
- The Seven Sins of Memory
- Egocentric bias: why we feel like the main character in our own movie
- Roam versus Notion: which one is best for you?
- Unbounded learning: how to unshackle your education
- Learning through your ears with Yehoshua Zlotogorski, founder of Alpe Audio
- Declinism: how rosy retrospection impacts decision-making
- Are you a taker, a giver, or a matcher?
- The Barnum Effect: why we love astrology and personality tests
- Write things down and get them done with Amplenote
- Taste: why we like what we like
- 90 journaling prompts to spark new personal insights
- Free your thoughts with the founders of Supernotes
- The power of simplicity: how to manage our complexity bias
- Musturbation: the irrational demand for perfection
- The three types of burnout
- The mindful productivity audit: 10 questions to improve your well-being at work
- Building the world’s most customizable workspace with Ivan Zhao, co-founder of Notion
- The fallacy of “what gets measured gets managed”
- When to use pages, tags, or attributes in Roam Research?
- Anxious for no apparent reason? It may be time to press “reset”
- The educational and economic necessity of lifelong learning
- The problem with work-life balance
- The Semmelweis Reflex: when current beliefs trump new knowledge
- The ambidextrous mindset: how to balance exploration and exploitation
- Nootropics, adaptogens, brain foods… What the heck is going on?
- The Diderot Effect: why we buy things we don’t need
- 9 useful templates for Roam Research
- Sophrosyne: the art of mindful moderation
- Navigating the mind: 40 major fields of psychology and neuroscience
- The benefits of stretching: why your body needs to move
- The Nirvana fallacy: when perfectionism leads to unrealistic solutions
- Why do we need to be right?
- Jootsing: the art of jumping out of the system
- Behind the scenes: how to start a website as an online creator
- Creative burnout: when the creativity tap runs dry
- Overcoming learned helplessness
- Emotional fitness and leadership with Dr. Emily Anhalt
- From note-taking to note-making
- Creating habits: how long does it take to form a habit?
- 5 thinking tools to add to your metacognitive toolbox
- Scaling down: on seeking fewer goals, relationships, and experiences
- The butterfly effect: the impact of deterministic chaos on our lives
- How to use templates in Roam Research [[roam/templates]]
- 2020 year in review: chaos and community
- Activation energy: the chemistry of getting started
- Holiday gift guide for the curious minds
- Curiosity and consistency: thoughts on growing a newsletter
- Selective ignorance: cultivating intentional knowledge in a chaotic world
- The difference between efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency
- The benefits of laziness: why being a lazy person can be good for you
- JavaScript plugins for Roam Research [[roam/js]]
- High-leverage activities: how to identify your energy multipliers
- Textual maps and the future of text
- Productivity and permaculture with Marie Poulin
- Inductive versus deductive reasoning: how to make stronger arguments
- How to upload and play audio files in Roam Research
- Lethologica: what happens when a word is on the tip of the tongue
- Memory bias: how selective recall can impact your memories
- Exaggeration: why we make a mountain out of a molehill
- Altered states of consciousness: the elusiveness of the mind
- Interview: Building an anti-regret machine with Tyler Bryden
- How to take notes while reading a book
- Personal values: how knowing yourself can guide your actions
- Interview: Using books to navigate life with Juvoni Beckford
- Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books
- Hindsight bias: the knew-it-all-along phenomenon
- Interview: Collective intelligence with Alexandra Elbakyan
- The state of personal knowledge management
- The hermeneutic circle: a key to critical reading
- Jumping to conclusions: the inference-observation confusion
- Connected Papers: a visual tool for academic research
- Survivorship bias: when failure gets forgotten
- Time is not a measure of productivity
- How to practice nuanced thinking
- The collective brain: where does innovation come from?
- The best CSS themes for Roam Research
- Semantic traps: why vague words are risky
- How to build diagrams in Roam Research
- The power of flexible consistency
- Negativity bias: how negative experiences cloud our judgement
- Networked thinking: a quiet cognitive revolution
- Adjacent skills: how to widen your career perspective
- How to think better
- The science of deliberate practice
- How to set up your own digital garden
- The two sides of stress: distress and eustress
- The only numbers that matter
- Pressure and procrastination
- How to use bi-directional links (backlinks) in Notion
- The empathy gap: why we underestimate the influence of emotions
- Structured distraction: how to make the most of your breaks at work