Dru's Notes

By Dru Riley

One mental model each day in a few minutes. Habits, business, building products and thinking clearly. From Dru Riley, founder of Trends.vc.... more

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The podcast currently has 45 episodes available.

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April 29, 2026 Launch First, Name Later
I spent two days on a name and shipped zero code. Domain searches across a dozen tabs. Then I stopped, deployed on a subdomain and started shipping. The name came later.
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April 28, 2026 I Deleted Social Media. Here's What I Kept.
You already know the cost before you open the app. You open it anyway. The algorithm that taught you a skill in a month is the same one eating your evenings.
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April 27, 2026 Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
Most people behind on their work add more. F1 engineers know better. The math says removing weight wins.
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April 26, 2026 Warren Buffett vs Y Combinator: Two Strategies, One Rule
Most investors argue about concentration versus diversification. The best ones think evolutionarily. Strategy follows the environment, not preference.
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April 25, 2026 The Tardigrade Test: How to Build Habits That Last
Most habits die during your worst weeks. The ones that survive share a single trait that has nothing to do with discipline. This episode introduces tardigradity. It's the probability that a practice keeps going.
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April 24, 2026 How I Get Business Ideas
I have a backlog of 200+ rough blog post ideas. When I sit down to write today's post, the idea is already there. The same habit works for business ideas.
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April 23, 2026 Simulation Thinking: How to Make Hard Decisions
I built five books in one day to pick which one to ship. Why simulation thinking beats picking between descriptions, and why AI makes it runnable on any decision that matters.
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April 22, 2026 The Hidden Cost of Moving: Decision Fatigue
Five years of moving to a new city every few months felt like freedom. The real cost was thousands of invisible daily decisions a settled person never faces. Why environment design is really decision reduction.
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April 21, 2026 Time Is Not Your Most Valuable Asset
Time goes one way. Money goes both ways. You can earn back a dollar. You can never earn back an hour. Treating the two as the same is a category error. This episode breaks down a seven-layer hierarchy of resources, from money at the bottom to awareness at the top.
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April 20, 2026 How to Prioritize When You Have Too Many Ideas
Each day I run experiments. Most days there are more experiments in my queue than I can run. Two filters decide what gets picked first: does this remove something from the system, or does this build something future experiments depend on?
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FAQs about Dru's Notes:

How many episodes does Dru's Notes have?

The podcast currently has 45 episodes available.