The Decision Lab

Inside the Mind of Robinhood Co-Founder Vlad Tenev

Robinhood’s co-founder reveals the brutal reality of surviving an 80% market cra...

[Outliers] Phil Knight: The Obsession That Built Nike

Phil Knight is the founder of Nike, the brand that reshaped sports and became on...

Nicolai Tangen: The $2 Trillion Mind

Nicolai Tangen is the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, the world’s larg...

Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power

Michael Ovitz co-founded CAA and helped reshape Hollywood, then took the same pl...

2025 Year in Review: Presence versus Performance

This year hit me like a bulldozer. There was no amount of reading and research t...

Discipline is Overrated: The Devotion–Friction Matrix

Most advice about consistency sounds the same: try harder, be more disciplined, ...

How to Get Unstuck: Simple Somatic Regulation Practices

When we’re stuck creatively, productively or intellectually, we often tend to fr...

How tiny experiments can set you free | Anne-Laure Le C...

Jan 21, 2026 | Watch on YouTube | Download the transcript When Dr Anne-Laure Le ...

Understand your neurodivergent brain with Dr George Sac...

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Nurture your network with Carly Valancy, founder of TET...

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The Omnipotence Dilemma

When being able to do everything prevents you from achieving anything This morni...

The Gut Decision Matrix: When to Trust Instinct and Int...

We often talk about “trusting our gut.” But the gut feelings people refer to can...

Stop explaining yourself to your AI with Alex Green, co...

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The Illusion of Clarity: How to Test Whether you Really...

When people ask me why I started the Ness Labs newsletter, I always admit that i...