Dru's Notes
One mental model each day in a few minutes. Habits, business, building products and thinking clearly. From Dru Riley, founder of Trends.vc.
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Remove Choices to Save Your Willpower | Daily Essay
<p>Each use of your willpower draws from the same depletable reservoir. Ray Bradbury, Ed Viesturs and Andie MacDowell show three ways to save it: change your environment, automate decisions and delete decisions.</p> <p>Featuring: Ray Bradbury, Ed Viesturs, Andie MacDowell, Jean-Jacques Rousseau</p> <p>Read the full post</p> <p>Brought to you by:</p> <p>Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities.</p> <p>HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do.</p> <p>Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video.</p> <p>Chapters:</p> <p>(00:00) Willpower as a battery<br> (00:19) Ray Bradbury's bag...
I Launched a Product a Day for 17 Days (Then Burned Out) | Daily Essay
<p>I launched a product a day and burned out 17 days in, because the habit counted launches and rewarded nothing else. An Output Habit counts what you finish and an Input Habit counts the time you put in. Bill Atkinson, Jonathan Coulton and Ed Whitlock show what each one rewards, and three questions pick the type for your own habits.</p> <p>Featuring: Bill Atkinson, Jonathan Coulton, Ed Whitlock, Upton Sinclair, Andy Hertzfeld</p> <p>Watch on YouTube</p> <p>Read the full post</p> <p>Brought to you by:</p> <p>Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities.</p> <...
The Psychology of Getting Comedy From Failure | Trevor Noah | Daily Essay
<p>Comedians get better after a bad night because whatever happens to them becomes stories for the next set. Trevor Noah tries new things knowing they'll either work or give him comedy. Massimo Bottura turned a dropped lemon tart into one of his signature desserts.</p> <p>Featuring: Trevor Noah, Esther Perel, Massimo Bottura, Takahiko Kondo, Carrie Fisher</p> <p>Watch on YouTube</p> <p>Read the full post</p> <p>Brought to you by:</p> <p>Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities.</p> <p>HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do.</p> <p>Multi: Turn...
The Viral Trap: How Social Media Keeps What You Make | Daily Essay
<p>Reddit priced the Apollo app out of business, Kayla Newman was never paid for "on fleek," and Nipsey Hussle bought the strip mall he once sold CDs in front of. Why I post every essay on a site I own first, then share it on X.</p> <p>Featuring: Christian Selig, Kayla Newman, Nipsey Hussle</p> <p>Watch on YouTube</p> <p>Read the full post</p> <p>Brought to you by:</p> <p>Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities.</p> <p>HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do.</p> <p>Multi: Turn any content...
The 4 Habit Levels Where Results Get Insane | Daily Essay
<p>Bryson DeChambeau's first year of bulking bought him about 20 yards. His second bought him less than two. Anatoly Karpov led Garry Kasparov 5-0 in the 1984 world chess title match, then lost about 22 pounds and watched his lead shrink to 5-3.</p> <p>Featuring: Bryson DeChambeau, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Kabir</p> <p>Watch on YouTube</p> <p>Read the full post</p> <p>Brought to you by:</p> <p>Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities.</p> <p>HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do.</p> <p>Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video.</p> <...
When You're Winning... And Lose Everything | Daily Essay
<p>A man from Poland and I each had five minutes to checkmate the other. He took one of my pawns. He was still up on points when he lost.</p> <p>Featuring: Lindsey Jacobellis, Tanja Frieden, Harry G. Summers Jr.</p> <p>Watch on YouTube</p> <p>Read the full post</p> <p>Brought to you by:</p> <p>Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities.</p> <p>HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do.</p> <p>Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video.</p> <p>Chapters:</p> <p>(00:00) A Colonel's Answer About Vietnam<br> (00:15...
The Chinese Mastermind Group Behind Volvo | Daily Essay
<p>Before Li Shufu spent $1.8 billion on Volvo, he asked 20 other Chinese founders in his club to argue about it. Paul Jarvis, Nathan Barry and Warren Buffett each had a few people who met with them regularly.</p> <p>Featuring: Li Shufu, Liu Chuanzhi, Paul Jarvis, Justin Jackson, Jarrod Drysdale, Nathan Barry, Barrett Brooks, Caleb Wojcik, James Clear, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Napoleon Hill</p> <p>Watch on YouTube</p> <p>Read the full post</p> <p>Brought to you by:</p> <p>Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities.</p> <p>HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your...
You've Read Enough. It's Time to Start Using It. | Daily Essay
<p>Calcium makes bones stronger only once they carry weight, and what you learn builds a skill only once you try to use it. Jim Koch had three Harvard degrees and had never sold anything until twenty bars a day taught him how to sell.</p> <p>Featuring: Jim Koch, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</p> <p>Watch on YouTube</p> <p>Read the full post</p> <p>Brought to you by:</p> <p>Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities.</p> <p>HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do.</p> <p>Multi: Turn any content into a...
I Learned This the Hard Way: Write Down Your Rules | Daily Essay
<p>One of the rules I read each morning could have saved me three years: don't force it. In 1846 Peter Panum found the old people of the Faroe Islands stayed healthy through a measles outbreak, because their bodies kept a record of the last one. Your rules for living work the same way, but only when you remember them.</p> <p>Featuring: Peter Panum, George Santayana</p> <p>Watch on YouTube</p> <p>Read the full post</p> <p>Brought to you by:</p> <p>Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities.</p> <p>HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move...
The Compounding Trap: Why Selling a Winner Costs You | Daily Essay
<p>Grace Groner bought three shares of Abbott Laboratories for $180 in 1935. When she died at 100 they were worth more than $7 million. A business, a skill, a friendship and a habit compound the same way if you keep showing up for years.</p> <p>Featuring: Grace Groner, Jeff Bezos</p> <p>Watch on YouTube</p> <p>Read the full post</p> <p>Brought to you by:</p> <p>Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities.</p> <p>HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do.</p> <p>Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video.</p> <p>Chapters:</p> <...
