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 09, 2026 Why I Call Everything v0.1 Before I Launch
One label manages expectations before users can form the wrong ones. It gives you permission to ship fast.
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April 08, 2026 The Second-Time Rule: Turn Fixes Into Systems
The second time you do something, turn it into a protocol. One-time work that pays off each time. A rule for turning fixes into lasting systems.
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April 07, 2026 What 2,000 Days of Building in Public Proved
546 founders wrote daily standups for 2,000 days. The most committed founders wrote the most ordinary first entries.
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April 07, 2026 Do Less, Get Better: I Removed a Good Chapter
I cut a chapter from my habits book. The chapter was good. The book is better without it.
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April 05, 2026 Why the Simplest Version Takes the Most Work
Simple code is easier to fix, easier to read, easier to maintain. Getting to simple is the hard part.
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April 04, 2026 Ship Before It's Ready
I ran one command from my terminal and a post showed up on WordPress. It was rough. But it went through, end to end. Flawed but real.
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April 03, 2026 Justified Complexity
I talk a lot about simplicity. This week I made my render pipeline 5x more complex. On purpose.
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April 02, 2026 I Left My Job in 2017. Here's What 10 Years Proved.
I left my job in 2017. People thought I was crazy. Almost 10 years later, the safe path turned out to be the dangerous one.
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April 02, 2026 The Nobel Prize Got Loss Aversion Wrong
Loss aversion is called a cognitive bias. But the math says otherwise. A 50% loss requires a 100% gain to recover. Some losses have no recovery at all.
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March 31, 2026 Why Rest Days Made Everything Harder
I kept a rest day each week for years. It made everything harder. There's a hidden cost to any gap in a habit: reactivation energy.
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FAQs about Dru's Notes:

How many episodes does Dru's Notes have?

The podcast currently has 45 episodes available.