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- Same Habits, Different Days: My Daily Experiments | Daily Essay
To prove my friend wrong about habits, I sent him a photo of Thai chilies. His meme said discipline makes each day look the same, and one of my habits is to run experiments each day.
Featuring: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ferran Adrià
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(00:00) Emerson on Experiments
(00:07) The Thai Chili Photo(00:39) Ferran Adrià's Changing Menu(01:06) Habits That Run ExperimentsWhere to find Dru:
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2 min - Remind Yourself Who The F*ck You Are. | Daily Essay
Tim Ferriss kept a jar of awesome, slips of good moments he read when he felt down. I keep a highlight reel, a list of my wins, and read it each morning. Olympic diver Laura Wilkinson watched a video of her best dives before each meet and won gold months after breaking her foot.
Featuring: Tim Ferriss, Laura Wilkinson
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Chapters:
(00:00) Tim Ferriss's jar of awesome
(00:25) The highlight reel in my journal(00:35) The wins on my list(00:54) Laura Wilkinson's video of her best dives(01:02) Gold on a sore foot in SydneyWhere to find Dru:
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2 min - Every Type of Courage Explained | Which One Do You Have? | Daily Essay
You can run a marathon and still dodge a hard talk with your wife. Courage comes in three kinds: mental, social and physical. Bravery in one kind stays in that kind.
Featuring: Alex Hormozi, Jia Jiang
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Chapters:
(00:00) A marathon vs a hard talk with your wife
(00:28) The three kinds of courage(00:52) The financial statement I kept avoiding(01:13) Jia Jiang's 100 days of rejection(01:48) The run I couldn't finishWhere to find Dru:
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3 min - The Power of Focus: What Early AI Models Taught Me | Daily Essay
In 2012 I gave a side project two hours of deep work each morning before my day job. It failed and I dropped the habit with it. METR grades AI models by the longest task they can finish, and a person with chopped-up attention is stuck where GPT-2 was.
Featuring: Ken Thompson, Llion Jones
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Chapters:
(00:00) Attention is all you need
(00:04) Building Shommi before work in 2012(00:23) Dropping the deep work habit(00:36) How METR grades AI models(01:03) Chopped-up attention(01:07) Ken Thompson's four weeks and Unix(01:33) Two and a half hours each morningWhere to find Dru:
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2 min - The 1 Rule That Stops Me Raising My Goals Too Soon | Daily Essay
A week of easy runs had me ready to make an hour my new floor. Then I remembered the run my rule asks for first. Seán Quinn's 35 years of wins ended in a €3 billion loss on one Irish bank.
Featuring: Seán Quinn, Carl Sagan
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Chapters:
(00:00) A good week of easy runs
(00:13) The rule before raising a floor(00:27) How buyers in a bubble reason(00:38) Seán Quinn's 35 years of wins(01:18) The 2008 crash and €3 billionWhere to find Dru:
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2 min - What a Depression Drug Taught Me About Rich People's Habits | Daily Essay
I looked up dozens of people who got rich before 50 and what they did each day. When I went looking for people with the same habits who never got rich, I could barely find any.
Featuring: Ben Goldacre, Warren Buffett, John D. Rockefeller, Galeazzo Ciano
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(00:00) The winners who got biographies
(00:22) Ben Goldacre and reboxetine(00:52) Checking a winner's habitWhere to find Dru:
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2 min - If It Fits, It Sticks | Daily Essay
I love to bike, but I run instead, because on foot I feel safer. After cars killed more than 3,000 people in the Netherlands in 1971, the Dutch kept biking and changed their environment instead.
Featuring: Vic Langenhoff
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Chapters:
(00:00) Why I run instead of bike
(00:17) Cars take over Dutch roads(00:26) Vic Langenhoff and Stop de Kindermoord(00:47) Making the roads safe to bike on(01:11) Habit harmonyWhere to find Dru:
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2 min - I Quit The ONE Thing Three Times Before I Got It Right | Daily Essay
Scored on the finish, my one thing shrank until it took a few minutes. The work I cared about barely moved, until I heard Gary Keller say he blocks four hours a day for his.
Featuring: Gary Keller, Raymond Chandler, Alex Hormozi, Cal Newport, Charles Darwin, Haruki Murakami
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Chapters:
(00:00) Cal Newport on hours of concentration
(00:11) Three tries at Gary Keller's The ONE Thing(00:38) Shrinking the one thing to fit a day(01:02) Keller's four-hour block(01:19) Raymond Chandler's four-hour rule(01:37) How Hormozi, Newport, Murakami and Darwin block their timeWhere to find Dru:
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3 min - A Day on the Moon. A Decade of Depression. | Daily Essay
Buzz Aldrin spent 21 hours on the moon and the next decade fighting depression and alcoholism. Some goals give you a high and fade. Others make each ordinary day better after you reach them.
Featuring: Buzz Aldrin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pete Adeney
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Chapters:
(00:00) Goals that fade after the high
(00:23) Buzz Aldrin after the moon(00:48) The hedonic treadmill(00:57) Vanity Goals and Sanity Goals(01:29) Financial independence and Mr. Money Mustache(01:48) Two lists of goalsWhere to find Dru:
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3 min - Why “Systems Not Goals” Is a Trap | Daily Essay
A goal needs a system to reach it. A system needs a goal to give it direction.
Featuring: Maurice Ashley, Bill Walsh, Seneca
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Chapters:
(00:00) Seneca's port
(00:06) Maurice Ashley works backward to grandmaster(00:25) Goals and systems need each other(00:38) Bill Walsh's system served the score(01:25) Work backward to your habitsWhere to find Dru:
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One mental model each day in a few minutes. Habits, business, building products and thinking clearly. From Dru Riley, founder of Trends.vc.