This archive page lists all of the 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.
- Getting compound interest on your thoughts with Conor White-Sullivan
- 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
- Online panic: a coronavirus case study
- 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
- Overchoice: why more isn’t always better
- Checklists: when we can’t trust our brains
- Why it’s hard to set boundaries: the yes autopilot
- Understanding the emotions behind procrastination
- Why we worry
- The Pygmalion Effect: an invisible nudge towards success
- Micro-wins: celebrating progress over success
- Write your own eulogy to shape your future
- The science of mind mapping: a visual way to make sense of the world
- The curse of knowledge
- Parkinson’s law: how constraints can create freedom
- Hope and optimism are on a spectrum
- The ten minute rule of productivity
- SMART goals are not so smart: make a PACT instead
- Interleaving: rethink the way you learn
- Self-help: the tip of the happiness iceberg
- Free will: the mind’s best trick
- Plus Minus Next journaling
- Turning goals into growth loops: the PARI system of mindful productivity
- The Eisenhower matrix of prioritisation
- Being prepared is overrated: start before you feel ready
- The comforting pseudoscience of the MBTI
- How to set actionable goals
- Neuroproductivity: how to be more productive using neuroscience
- Metacognition: how to think about thinking
- Active reading: how to become a better reader
- Combinational creativity: the myth of originality
- The Cobra Effect: how linear thinking leads to unintended consequences
- Turning push goals into pull goals
- Focus on the process: stop thinking and start doing
- Ten keys to happier living
- Joy triggers: happiness on demand
- The impact of the shiny toy syndrome
- The science-based benefits of gratitude
- Dealing with anxiety at work
- The science-based benefits of writing
- How to make better decisions with second-level thinking
- Impostor syndrome: the fear of being exposed as a fraud
- Why I write and why you should too
- Why we cry more easily on planes
- The affliction of abundance: FOBO or the fear of a better option