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.
- 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
- Mindful productivity and neuroscience
- 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
- Finding the big dominos in your life with Khe Hy
- Sustainability over speed: adopting asynchronous communication
- Coronavirus: How to stay healthy and productive when working from home
- Beyond human consciousness
- Embracing the discomfort of self-reflection with Buster Benson
- The Evolution of Consciousness: a talk by Dr Derek Tracy
- Somewhere over the brainbow: a beautiful neuroimaging technique
- The genetics of happiness: does happiness really depend upon ourselves?
- Neuroeducation: exploring the potential of brain-based education
- Self-competition: only compete with your past self
- 75 writing prompts for the curious minds
- Motivation beyond money
- How much work is enough work
- Dear Diary: the science-based benefits of journaling
- The ambition trilemma: freedom, stability, wealth
- Don’t pin the butterfly: not all hobbies need to become hustles
- Beyond facts: divergent thinking
- A beginner’s guide to Roam Research: getting started in 5 easy steps
- From fixed mindset to growth mindset: the complete guide
- Roam Research and mindframing for world curation
- Mindful productivity: a sustainable way to work and think
- Build your own PaaP: playfulness as a practice
- How to use Roam Research: a tool for metacognition
- Knowing when it’s time to quit and move on
- Why most strategies fail
- How to decide what to work on next
- Is there a limit to the human brain’s capacity?
- How to overcome writer’s block
- 30 life lessons I learned before turning 30
- 2019 year in review: growth versus goals
- Noterday: letting go of yesterday
- Planner or pantser: what’s your productivity style?
- Untranslatable words and your well-being
- Illusory correlations: how to identify your hidden assumptions
- The psychology of gift giving
- An introduction to metamodernism: the cultural philosophy of the digital age
- How to read a book
- But wait, there’s more: the psychology of selling
- How to manage conflict: reframing your anger
- The Occam’s razor fallacy: the simplest solution is not always the correct one
- Ethos, Pathos, Logos: how to persuade people
- Writing 100 articles in 100 days
- Science-based methods to improve your memory
- WIP: the case for sharing your work in public
- Fostering psychological safety with a personal user manual
- How to develop your self-authorship