Dru's Notes
55 episodes — Page 1 of 2
Build Systems So Your Work Runs on Easy Mode | Daily Essay
We Are All Investors | Daily Essay
The Optimization Trap That Broke My Meditation Habit | Daily Essay
How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Faster | Daily Essay
Lee Kuan Yew: Engineered Sovereignty | Biography
Why I Rewrite My Principles by Hand | Daily Essay
The Minimalist Philosophy of a Jellyfish | Daily Essay
Why Some Habits Stick: 12 Tardigrade Traits | Daily Essay
Buy the Red Ocean | Daily Essay
When to Give Up on a Business: Force or Flow? | Daily Essay
Ray Dalio's 42-Year Daily Habit | Daily Essay
How Meditation Eats Stress | Daily Essay
Satoshi Nakamoto: Absent Authority | Biography
Mental Toughness via Meditation
From Self Taught Programmer to Senior in Under 2 Years
Willpower Is Finite (How to Do Hard Things Anyway)
The Morning Habits That Stick (Why Order Matters)
Eat Your Own Cooking
Flywheel Explained: One Action, Many Wins
Manifesting Is Learned Helplessness in Reverse
Launch First, Name Later
I Deleted Social Media. Here's What I Kept.
Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
Warren Buffett vs Y Combinator: Two Strategies, One Rule
The Tardigrade Test: How to Build Habits That Last
How I Get Business Ideas
Simulation Thinking: How to Make Hard Decisions
The Hidden Cost of Moving: Decision Fatigue
Time Is Not Your Most Valuable Asset
How to Prioritize When You Have Too Many Ideas
I Had Too Many Habits. Here's What Saved Me.
Most Habit Trackers Miss the Point
How I Build Habits That Don't Break
How to Close a Chapter Without Regret
What an AI Playing Breakout Taught Me About Reality
Why Smart People Underperform
The Cure For Anxiety Is Doing More Of It
We Live in the Wild. Not the Zoo.
How I Use a Paper To-Do List to Finish What Actually Matters
Long-Haul Luxuries: Why I Only Buy Things Built To Last
Why I Call Everything v0.1 Before I Launch
The Second-Time Rule: Turn Fixes Into Systems
What 2,000 Days of Building in Public Proved
Do Less, Get Better: I Removed a Good Chapter
Why the Simplest Version Takes the Most Work
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. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.
Justified Complexity
I talk a lot about simplicity. This week I made my render pipeline 5x more complex. On purpose. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.
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. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.
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. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.
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. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.