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.

Dru's Notes episodes:

April 19, 2026 I Had Too Many Habits. Here's What Saved Me.
Habits pile like grains of sand. Add enough and the whole stack collapses under its own weight. Here's the cap I set to stop the collapses, and the split I had to make when that cap started blocking habits I wanted to add.
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April 18, 2026 Most Habit Trackers Miss the Point
You can't trust your memory to measure change. I add and remove habits regularly. Three weeks later I can't remember how I felt before the change. The water temperature adjusted and I adjusted with it. My solution: forced review checkpoints.
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April 17, 2026 How I Build Habits That Don't Break
For years my habits lived in boom and bust cycles. Then I replaced banking with ranges: a floor, a target, a ceiling.
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April 17, 2026 How to Close a Chapter Without Regret
I ran a daily standup for six years. 2,000 days. 44,110 standups logged. Here's how I closed the chapter with a book instead of silence.
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April 16, 2026 What an AI Playing Breakout Taught Me About Reality
One scene from The Thinking Game documentary stopped me. A DeepMind AI found a move no human player would try. I named it tunneling, then found nature doing the same thing for billions of years.
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April 15, 2026 Why Smart People Underperform
The best AI coding model writes bad code inside Antigravity IDE. The same model in Cursor or Claude Code performs much better. The same law applies to people. Environment is the multiplier.
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April 13, 2026 The Cure For Anxiety Is Doing More Of It
My first blog post took hours. Three months of daily posts later, I write, publish and move on. If you're anxious about something, the answer is usually more exposure.
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April 12, 2026 We Live in the Wild. Not the Zoo.
We live in the wild, not the zoo. The systems around us are built for what we buy, what we click and what can be mass produced. Our wellbeing is a side effect. Once we accept that no one is looking out for us, we start taking accountability for our own wellbeing and outcomes.
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April 11, 2026 How I Use a Paper To-Do List to Finish What Actually Matters
Each day I rewrite my to-do list on paper. The things I finished get crossed off. The unfinished things only get carried forward if they're worth rewriting. The longer an item survives that process, the louder the signal: this is the one to finish.
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April 10, 2026 Long-Haul Luxuries: Why I Only Buy Things Built To Last
I paid $150 for a chef's knife last week. A recent trip taught me what a good knife feels like.
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FAQs about Dru's Notes:

How many episodes does Dru's Notes have?

The podcast currently has 45 episodes available.