Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Indie status: 2+ years
Previously: Google, Entrepreneur First
Founder, Ness Labs
Collaborated On
Writings
2021
April
- The Barnum Effect: why we love astrology and personality tests ·
- Write things down and get them done with Amplenote ·
- Taste: why we like what we like ·
- 90 journaling prompts to spark new personal insights ·
- Free your thoughts with the founders of Supernotes ·
March
- The power of simplicity: how to manage our complexity bias ·
- Musturbation: the irrational demand for perfection ·
- The three types of burnout ·
- The mindful productivity audit: 10 questions to improve your well-being at work ·
- Building the world’s most customizable workspace with Ivan Zhao, co-founder of Notion ·
- The fallacy of “what gets measured gets managed” ·
- When to use pages, tags, or attributes in Roam Research? ·
- Anxious for no apparent reason? It may be time to press “reset” ·
- The educational and economic necessity of lifelong learning ·
- The problem with work-life balance ·
- The Semmelweis Reflex: when current beliefs trump new knowledge ·
- The ambidextrous mindset: how to balance exploration and exploitation ·
- Nootropics, adaptogens, brain foods… What the heck is going on? ·
- The Diderot Effect: why we buy things we don’t need ·
- 9 useful templates for Roam Research ·
- Sophrosyne: the art of mindful moderation ·
- Navigating the mind: 40 major fields of psychology and neuroscience ·
- The benefits of stretching: why your body needs to move ·
- The Nirvana fallacy: when perfectionism leads to unrealistic solutions ·
January
- Why do we need to be right? ·
- Jootsing: the art of jumping out of the system ·
- Behind the scenes: how to start a website as an online creator ·
- Creative burnout: when the creativity tap runs dry ·
- Overcoming learned helplessness ·
- Emotional fitness and leadership with Dr. Emily Anhalt ·
- From note-taking to note-making ·
- Creating habits: how long does it take to form a habit? ·
- 5 thinking tools to add to your metacognitive toolbox ·
- Scaling down: on seeking fewer goals, relationships, and experiences ·
- The butterfly effect: the impact of deterministic chaos on our lives ·
- How to use templates in Roam Research [[roam/templates]] ·
- 2020 year in review: chaos and community ·
- Activation energy: the chemistry of getting started ·
- Holiday gift guide for the curious minds ·
- Curiosity and consistency: thoughts on growing a newsletter ·
- Selective ignorance: cultivating intentional knowledge in a chaotic world ·
- The difference between efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency ·
- The benefits of laziness: why being a lazy person can be good for you ·
- JavaScript plugins for Roam Research [[roam/js]] ·
- High-leverage activities: how to identify your energy multipliers ·
November
- Textual maps and the future of text ·
- Productivity and permaculture with Marie Poulin ·
- Inductive versus deductive reasoning: how to make stronger arguments ·
- How to upload and play audio files in Roam Research ·
- Lethologica: what happens when a word is on the tip of the tongue ·
- Memory bias: how selective recall can impact your memories ·
- Exaggeration: why we make a mountain out of a molehill ·
- Altered states of consciousness: the elusiveness of the mind ·
- Interview: Building an anti-regret machine with Tyler Bryden ·
- How to take notes while reading a book ·
- Personal values: how knowing yourself can guide your actions ·
- Interview: Using books to navigate life with Juvoni Beckford ·
October
- 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 ·
- 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 ·
- 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 ·
- The planning fallacy: why we underestimate how long a task will take ·
- How to choose the right note-taking app ·
- 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 ·
July
- 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 I learned from writing 50 newsletters ·
- Inner child and inner critic: a battle for creativity ·
- Quote the web with Quotebacks ·
June
- 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 you mental health budget ·
May
- 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 ·