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Interview with Clint Jarvis, founder of Roots – Ness Labs
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Clint Jarvis is the founder of Roots, a mobile app designed to set boundaries with your phone and make time for the things you love. In this interview, we talked about how to find balance in the digital world, how to build an intentional relationship with technology, how gamification can help us...
on Fri, 2PM
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Rethinking Goals: the Science of Nonlinear Goal Setting
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When we embrace nonlinear goal setting, we activate the brain’s reward system differently. Instead of seeking the dopamine hit of achieving a single goal, we create multiple feedback loops that encourage exploration and sustain motivation.
on Tue, 11PM
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Dear Diary: the science-based benefits of journaling
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We spend a lot of our time writing. Answering emails, filling forms, messaging with friends. Despite the advent of video and audio forms of content, writing is still a staple of communication on the Internet, with many magazines, blogs, and newsletters attracting millions of readers. But...
on Dec 6
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25 Reasons to Write Online • Ness Labs
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In an age of video reels and generative AI it may seem like text-based content is dead, but writing online is still the highest leverage use of your intellectual and creative energy.
on Nov 29
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Checklists: when we can't trust our brains
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Systemic complexity means that we cannot rely on our memory alone: checklists are tools to unload the stress of living our lives to an outside helper.
on Nov 23
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Beyond Overpreparation: How to Start Before You Feel Ready
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You should start before you feel ready. Getting prepared feels good, there’s a thin line between preparation and overpreparation.
on Nov 7
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Overfunctioning: The Drive to Do it All
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Overfunctioning refers to feeling overly responsible for family, friends, and coworkers, which leads to trying to proactively solve problems and taking on too many tasks, even if the other person is perfectly capable of doing those tasks themselves.
on Oct 31
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The Doing Deficit: How Deliberate Action Outperforms Passive Learning
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How deliberate practice solves for the doing deficit by providing a way to focus on the process of active doing instead of passive thinking.
on Oct 3
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Workplace Anxiety: How to Deal with Anxiety at Work
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While a little anxiety can sometimes help sharpen your focus, chronic workplace anxiety not only undermines your performance but can also spill over into your personal life, damaging your relationships and eroding your well-being.
on Sep 30
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I have always struggled with a thought: it’s too late. Too late to publish a book, to start a company, to learn a new language. This is called time anxiety.
on Sep 22
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Designing a Protocol to Get out of Slump Mode
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There’s lots of debate around the best way to do stuff—what’s most efficient, scalable, and sustainable. But what about when you don’t feel like doing anything… When you’re in Slump Mode?
on Sep 19
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Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Ness Labs
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A transformative guide to rethinking your approach to goals and life itself from neuroscientist and creator of the Ness Labs newsletter.
on Sep 14
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From note-taking to note-making
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Note-taking is fast, uses the original author's language, and feels easier. Note-making is slower, more involved, and uses your own language.
on Sep 11
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The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone incorrectly assumes that others have enough background to understand.
on Aug 8
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How to deal with negative emotional triggers
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You cannot control all the events impacting your life, but you can choose how you react to negative emotional triggers to regulate your emotions.
on Aug 2
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Levels of Thinking: How to Make Better Decisions with Second-Level Thinking
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Your levels of thinking can be adjusted with intention. Second-level thinking is deliberate: it's about using mental models and probability systems to determine the most favourable decision.
on Aug 1
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Exaggeration: why we make a mountain out of a molehill
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Overreacting, catastrophizing, maximizing, overplaying… We have many words for exaggeration. However, all exaggeration mostly falls under three categories.
on Aug 1
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Burnout or Boreout? It’s Always About the Lack of Control
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Burnout is when you are overstimulated, and boreout is when you are understimulated. Both leave you exhausted, feeling empty, and unable to cope with the demands of work and life.
on Aug 1
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Occam's razor fallacy: the simplest solution is not always the correct one
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Occam's razor is dangerous. Both our minds and the world are complex machines which cannot be grasped by applying a simplistic approach to decision making.
on Jul 21
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Active reading: how to become a better reader
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Active reading means reading something with the determination to understand, evaluate, and remember relevant aspects of what you read.
on Jul 18
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Environmental Psychology: How Your Surroundings Shape Your Mind
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Environmental psychology explores the relationship between humans and the external world. Originally, it focused primarily on architectural design, examining how the built environment influences human behavior. Over time, the field expanded to include various aspects of human interaction with...
on Jul 3
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The false promise of the 10,000 hour rule
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Maybe the biggest problem with the 10,000-hour rule is that there is absolutely nothing in the study that suggests that anyone can become an expert in any given domain by putting in 10,000 hours of practice, even deliberate practice.
on May 16
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Personal or professional growth
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It seems like we need to make a constant choice between our personal and professional and personal growth. But is it truly a zero-sum game?
on May 9
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Intentional Curiosity: Get your Brain to Focus on What Matters
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Intentional curiosity is the ability to direct your attention towards information inside or outside of you in a deliberate way. In other words, curiosity helps us direct our limited attentional resources to the most important stimuli within our attentional field.
on Apr 30
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Ness Labs - The Learning Community for Knowledge Workers
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Want to achieve more without sacrificing your mental health? Say hello to mindful productivity.
on Apr 9
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The Reading Mind: Surprising Science-Based Benefits of Reading Everyday
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The reading paradox has fascinated scientists for a while. There are many benefits we can unlock by reading everyday to activate the reading parts of the human brain.
on Apr 4
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The science-based benefits of writing
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Writing can make you happier, healthier, more resilient, more grateful, and a better communicator… Let's look at the science-based benefits of writing.
on Apr 3
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Rediscovering Ikigai: What We Got Wrong & How to Find Meaning in Life
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The concept of ikigai has often been misunderstood in the Western world largely due to the popularity of a certain Venn diagram. But ikigai means something different.
on Mar 21
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The Curiosity Conflict: The Struggle to Shift from Exploration to Exploitation
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The curiosity conflict is the phenomenon where our greatest asset for creativity—our curiosity—can get in the way of our productivity. It can fuel a frustrating cycle that leaves us feeling stuck despite a wealth of ideas and a love for learning.
on Mar 17
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This series of portraits explores the thought processes, working habits, and decision-making principles applied by brilliant thinkers who profoundly impacted the world with their discoveries and the way they challenged the status quo.
on Mar 8
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Interview with Abdullah Atta, founder of Notesnook
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Notesnook is an open source and end-to-end encrypted note-taking app with cross-device syncing. Abdullah Atta is obsessed with privacy, promising no spying and no tracking, and has designed many features to ensure your information is only accessible to who you want it to. In this interview, we...
on Mar 2
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From productivity porn to mindful productivity
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Our desire to be more productive can turn into a harmful addiction to productivity content: a phenomenon known as productivity porn.
on Mar 2
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The Curiosity Matrix: 9 Habits of Curious Minds
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The Curiosity Matrix maps nine common habits of curious people supporting personal and professional growth through curiosity-driven behaviors.
on Mar 1
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The Intentionality Curve: Living more Intentionally with Habits, Routines, and Rituals
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The key is to understand the difference between habits, routines, and rituals, and to design a life where your daily actions allow you to play with the entire spectrum of consciousness.
on Mar 1
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The Power of Personal Experiments
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Just like a scientist who observes the world, formulates hypotheses and tests them, you can run personal experiments to gain profound insights into your own life.
on Feb 14
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Here lies the paradox of goals: Setting goals is a guarantee for disillusionment whether we reach the desired state or not, and yet working toward goals is an important part of evolving as a person. How can we resolve this paradox?
on Feb 7
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The science of decision-making: why smart people do dumb things
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Decision-making is the process we use to identify and choose alternatives, producing a final choice, which may or may not result in an action. It can be more or less rational based on the decision maker’s values, beliefs, and (perceived) knowledge.
on Jan 22
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Why we wait: Understanding the emotions behind procrastination
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Procrastination is your body and your brain trying to communicate a state of emotional struggle. Ignoring that message leads to more negative emotions, but embracing procrastination and trying to decipher the message can help you get unstuck while protecting your mental health.
on Jan 20
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Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books
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Unread books are as powerful as the ones we read. An antilibrary is a private collection of unread books capturing the vastness of the unknown.
on Jan 7
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The Science of Learning to Let Go
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Learning to let go is much harder than holding on. Why do we cling onto past sorrows, bad relationships, old things, meaningless goals?
on Dec 27
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Systematic inventive thinking: the power of thinking inside the box
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When talking about creativity, many people will tell you: “Think outside the box!” The catchphrase is so common in management consulting and business environments, it has become a bit of a cliché. What if innovation could be fostered by thinking inside the box instead? That’s what Systematic...
on Nov 27, 2023
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4 science-backed ways to build your own mental gym
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Your mental gym should include activities that challenge cognitive and emotional skills. You need to balance those activities across four pillars: curiosity, creativity, mindfulness, and rest.
on Nov 23, 2023
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Interstitial journaling: combining notes, to-do and time tracking
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Interstitial journaling is a productivity technique created by Tony Stubblebine. To my knowledge, it’s the simplest way to combine note-taking, tasks, and time tracking in one unique workflow. You don’t need any special software, but Roam Research makes it even easier to do thanks to the...
on Oct 28, 2023