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.
- 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
- Idea evaluation: the other side of the creativity coin
- From productivity porn to mindful productivity
- How to choose the right note-taking app
- The planning fallacy: why we underestimate how long a task will take
- Systematic inventive thinking: the power of thinking inside the box
- The mindful productivity guide to intermittent fasting
- Constructive criticism: how to give and receive feedback
- Pre-mortem: how to anticipate failure with prospective hindsight
- How to take a replenishing vacation (or staycation)
- The rational benefits of emotions
- How to evaluate the validity and reliability of your mental models
- GPT-3 and the future of human productivity
- Temporal discounting: the battle between present and future self
- From closed mind to open mind
- The Dunning–Kruger effect: you don’t know what you don’t know
- Investing into the unknown with Lawrence Yeo
- Managing risk with the NASA Risk Matrix
- Fail like a scientist
- 50 lessons learned from writing 50 newsletters
- Inner child and inner critic: a battle for creativity
- Quote the web with Quotebacks
- Creative challenges with Alyssa X
- Creating calm: how to manage stress
- From inspiration to idea sex: how to generate ideas on demand
- The power of the weekly review
- The art and science of mind wandering
- Browser extensions for Roam Research
- From mental map to mental atlas
- As we may die
- Roam themes: how to style Roam Research with custom CSS
- Mental wealth: managing your mental health budget
- Productive cognitive load: make the most of your working memory
- Thinking in maps: from the Lascaux caves to modern knowledge graphs
- How to build a support group
- Collectors to Creators Meetup Notes
- The anatomy of a perfect educational article
- The Goldilocks Principle of Stress and Anxiety
- The psychology of mindful productivity
- Connectedness and complex systems with Dr John L. Collins
- Dr John L. Collins Biography
- How to take smart notes
- Writing as a thinking tool
- Learning to let go
- Confirmation bias: believing what you see, seeing what you believe
- Programmed creativity: generate ideas on demand
- How to build a digital garden with TiddlyWiki
- Are we too busy to enjoy life?
- Worrying well: how to bring wisdom to your worries
- 10 ways to speed up your Roam Research workflow
- 5 minimal themes for TiddlyWiki
- Cognitive biases in entrepreneurship: a research report
- You and your mind garden
- How to use TiddlyWiki as a static website generator in 3 steps
- Impossible colors: our vision’s incomplete palette
- Interstitial journaling: combining notes, to-do and time tracking
- Getting started with TiddlyWiki: a beginner’s tutorial
- Open source and self-hosted alternatives to Roam Research
- How to build a spaced repetition system in Roam Research
- The optionality fallacy
- Getting compound interest on your thoughts with Conor White-Sullivan
- Notes from “Habits, Routines, Rituals” meetup
- The power of spaced repetition
- How to bridge the intention-behaviour gap
- Self-education: how to leverage the end of credentialism
- How to use Google Sheets to create a life dashboard
- A taxonomy of notes
- Interview with Conor White-Sullivan of Roam Research: full transcript
- Brain-training games are BS
- Emotional agility: how to build resilience in times of crisis
- Roam Research: a simple input to output flow
- You can eat your mallow: debunking the marshmallow test
- How to go on an information diet
- 30 things to do when stuck at home