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.
- The Anxiety-Curiosity Switch: How to Redirect Your Mental Energy for Creativity
- Thinking Out Loud: How to Use Your Voice in Knowledge Work
- Why Writing Is the Best Tool for Personal Growth
- Your Brain on Cortisol: How to Rewire Your Stress Response and Reclaim Your Energy
- Springtime Experiments: Cultivating Curiosity in the Season of Change
- How to lead like a scientist
- The Comedown Effect: Understanding the Emotional Aftermath of Achievement
- Taking Note of Nature: City-Friendly Tiny Experiments to Connect with the Natural World
- Productive at Work, Paralyzed at Home: What to Do When You’re in a Functional Freeze
- The Liberating Effect of Uncertainty
- What Type of Experimentalist Are You?
- Turning Big Fears into Tiny Experiments
- Curiosity Snacks: How to Redirect Your Impulse to Know
- Personal Science: Self-Experimentation from Quantified Self to Qualified Self
- Your Brain on Uncertainty
- The Multiplier Effect of Collective Curiosity
- Where Are You on the Woo Spectrum?
- A Year of Curiosity
- 2024 Year in Review: Life is in the Liminal
- The Power of an Annual Review: Reflect on the Past to Reimagine your Future
- Rethinking Goals: the Science of Nonlinear Goal Setting
- The Art of Wintering: How to Find Strength in Slowing Down
- 25 Reasons to Write Online and How to Start a Newsletter in 2025
- Checklists: The Key to Smarter and Safer Work
- The Five Pillars of Creative Flow
- Beyond Overpreparation: How to Start Before You Feel Ready
- Overfunctioning: The Drive to Do it All, or When Helping Others Is Hurting You
- How to Make Friends with Fear: The F.E.A.R. Framework
- How to Break Free from the Yes Autopilot: Setting Boundaries that Work
- Why we worry: The ABC method for mindfully managing worry
- The Doing Deficit: How Deliberate Action Outperforms Passive Learning
- Workplace Anxiety: How to Deal with Anxiety at Work
- Designing a Protocol to Get out of Slump Mode
- The Sleep-Creativity Cycle: Why Sleep is the Secret Ally of Creative Minds
- The Science-Based Benefits of Writing
- The Curse of Knowledge
- Levels of Thinking: How to Make Better Decisions with Second-Level Thinking
- Ness Labs Best Books of July 2024
- Active reading: how to become a better reader
- The Affliction of Abundance
- Ness Labs Best Books of June 2024
- Temporal Curiosity: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future
- Principles of Emotional Regulation
- Presenteeism: The Hidden Productivity Killer
- Environmental Psychology: How Your Surroundings Shape Your Mind
- Ness Labs Best Books of May 2024
- From FOMO to JOMO: The Joy of Missing out
- Joy Triggers: How to Find Happiness on Demand
- The Shiny Toy Syndrome: When We Chase Novelty at Work
- The Tyranny of Job Titles: From Vanity Growth to Personal Growth
- The Self-Motivation Toolkit: How to Stay Curious and Committed
- The Illusion of Productivity: Why We Are Addicted to Busyness
- The Reading Mind: Surprising Science-Based Benefits of Reading Everyday
- Human Curiosity in the Age of AI
- Intentional Curiosity: Get your Brain to Focus on What Matters
- Ness Labs Best Books of March 2024
- Rediscovering Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life
- The Triple Take: How to Balance Your Mental, Emotional, and Physical Health
- The Curiosity Conflict: Why we Struggle to Shift from Exploration to Exploitation
- How to Build a Better Writing Habit
- Timeshielding: How to Do the Things you Actually Want to Do
- Ness Labs Best Books of February 2024
- The Alchemy of Generative Questions
- Free-Floating Anxiety: When You Feel Anxious for No Apparent Reason
- The Curiosity Matrix: 9 Habits of Curious Minds
- Manage your Mental Energy with Ben Wisbey, founder of Pylot
- The Psychology of Camera Confidence
- Announcing the Winners of the Experimental Grants
- Curiosity Attractors: The Diffuse Obsessions that Shape our Lives
- Get Hold of your Breath with Stefanie Broes, founder of Moonbird
- How to deal with negative emotional triggers
- Ness Labs Best Books of January 2024
- Master AI Brainstorming with Jakob Storjohann, Founder of Ideamap
- The Power of Personal Experiments
- The Science of Learning to Let Go
- Neuroenergetics: The Brain’s Energy Budgeting System
- Tutorial: How to Build a Custom GPT with OpenAI’s GPT Builder
- 2023 Year in Review: Of Ambition and Aliveness
- Ness Labs Best Books of December 2023
- The science of decision-making: why smart people do dumb things
- Make sense of complex topics with Alan Chan, co-founder of Heptabase
- How to better remember what you read
- Escape the Algorithm
- Building your mental gym
- Ness Labs Best Books of November 2023
- The Science of Brainstorming: How to Effectively Generate New Ideas
- Ness Labs Best Books of October 2023
- Some hard truths about soft skills
- Design Better Habits, Routines, and Rituals with the Intentionality Curve
- Is it burnout or boreout?
- Writing is a thinking tool
- Ness Labs Best Books of September 2023
- Self-Anthropology: Become your own anthropologist with personal field notes
- You Don’t Need to Choose
- Interoceptive Journaling
- Interoception: The hidden ‘sixth sense’
- Ness Labs Best Books of August 2023
- Mindful context switching: multitasking for humans
- Stop looking for The One: The Inverted Pyramid of Life
- Ness Labs Best Books of July 2023