RE: https://mastodon.online/@sherold/116699623948966433

What it costs when we lose human curiosity:

Boredom. Curiosity is the fuel that carries us out of boredom. Fill every one-minute gap — the supermarket queue, the elevator ride — with stimulation, and you close the very space where light-bulb moments live.

#psychology #neuroscience #NessLabs #SXSWLondon

A Manual for Human Curiosity in the Age of Machine Intelligence

Anne-Laure Le Cunff #NessLabs #SXSWLondon #psychology #neuroscience #AI

https://nesslabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/human-curiosity-manual.pdf

Quite disappointing seeing this in the header of one of my favorite newsletters. #NessLabs

Creativerly 281 is out now 🙌

This week I wrote about how I am managing #informationoverload by leveraging #personalcuration and embracing ever-growing lists and backlogs of #blogposts, #podcasts, #newsletters, ...

Besides that, you will find some news and updates from #AFFiNE, #Play, and @Vivaldi, and articles from #builtformars, #psychologytoday, #nesslabs, and #uxcollective

Read it here: https://creativerly.com/how-to-embrace-the-good-enough/

How to embrace the good enough & The power of personal curation

Reflecting on the past six months, AFFiNE July update, Vivaldi 6.8, why users are ignoring your features, and a lot more in this week's issue of Creativerly.

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The Reading Mind: Surprising Science-Based Benefits of Reading Everyday

https://nesslabs.com/benefits-of-reading

#neuroscience #NessLabs #psychology #science #reading #books #Newsletter

The Reading Mind: Surprising Science-Based Benefits of Reading Everyday

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.

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Herman Martinus is the developer and operator of bearblog.dev, a small, no-nonsense blogging platform. His thoughts in this article remind me a lot of what Ann-Laure Le Cunff writes on Nesslabs about “You and your mind garden”: Not to scale at all costs, but to sustainably care about the quality of your thoughts (or in Herman's case, the product Bear Blog).

I like his thoughts and ideology.

https://herman.bearblog.dev/my-product-is-my-garden/
#bearblog #mindgarden #nesslabs

My product is my garden

I’ve been part of the internet startup scene for a while. There are so many different camps: the bootstrappers, the VC-backed tech-bros, the crypto “investor...

Herman's blog

The Dev for the Evernote REPLACEMENT I'm using, provides a concise and informative interview over at Ness Labs.
https://nesslabs.com/notesnook-featured-tool

"Abdullah Atta is the founder of Notesnook, an open source and end-to-end encrypted note-taking app with cross-device syncing.

Abdullah 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."

#NessLabs #NotesNook #Evernote #NoteApps #Encryption #Privacy #DataPrivacy @notesnook

Interview with Abdullah Atta, founder of Notesnook

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 talked about the value of privacy for everyone, how to balance privacy and convenience, their commitment  to radical transparency, the power of a notes-centric approach, and much more.

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Creativerly 243 is out featuring

Tools: #BusyCal, #LottieLab, and fresh news and updates from #Capacities, #Loom (got acquired by #Atlassian for $975m), #Obsidian, and #Bear.

Articles: #ThorstenBall ( #Every), #AnneLaureLeCunff ( #NessLabs), #RobertWaldinger & #MarcSchulz ( #TheAtlantic), and #SamuelWFranklin ( #BehavioralScientist).

Read the whole issue here: https://creativerly.com/the-paradox-of-goals/

The Paradox of Goals & The motion design tool for product teams

Going for simplicity, the powerful, elegant, and customizable calendar app, Loom getting acquired by Atlassian, and a lot more in this week's issue of Creativerly.

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Creativerly 230 is out featuring

Tools: #Minutes, #Finbar by #RoeyBiran, and news and updates by #ShinyFrog and @obsidian.

Articles: #AnneLaureLeCunff (#NessLabs), #MorganHousel, #VitalyFriedman (#SmashingMagazine), #JuliaEvans

Thank you #DesignTechSIA for sponsoring this issue 🚀

Read it here: https://creativerly.com/meetings-made-for-remote-teams/

Meetings made for remote teams & Some blogging myths

Why single-purpose apps are fun, the supercharged menu bar search, Obsidian Importer, and a lot more in this week's issue of Creativerly.

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Creativerly 229 is out featuring

Tools: #Paste (v4.0 released), #LiveSurface, and updates and news from #Anytype, #Folk, #Bear by #ShinyFrog, and #Proton.

Articles: #LawrenceYeo (#MoreToThat), #AnneLaureCunff (#NessLabs), #EvanArmstrong (#Every), and #VitalyFriedman (#SmashingMagazine)

Read the whole issue here: https://creativerly.com/the-clipboard-as-it-should-be/

The clipboard as it should be & The problem of what others think

Threads by Meta - the new privacy nightmare, a powerful mockup editor, Bear 2 is coming, Proton Pass is available, and a lot more in this week's issue of Creativerly.

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