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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.

  1. hace 39 min

    Why Polar Bears Pace and Rich Men Dive to the Titanic | Daily Essay

    When you eliminate real friction from a comfortable life, an idle mind manufactures artificial danger to replace it. Stillness has its place, and so does a demanding climb. Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

  2. hace 1 día

    From Clay to Code: What 24 Technologies Made Scarce | Daily Essay

    Every time a technology makes something cheap, it makes something else scarce. Money never flows to the abundance. It flows to the new bottleneck. When writing made remembering cheap, reading got expensive. Today, artificial intelligence makes intelligence cheap. What gets expensive when generating answers costs nothing? Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

  3. hace 2 días

    If You Ain't Got Nothing, You Ain't Got Nothing To Lose | Daily Essay

    When you have no position to defend, you can afford to take big swings. Starting from zero feels like a disadvantage, but it gives you total freedom to run wild experiments. Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

  4. hace 3 días

    Force Yourself to Go Faster - Then Pay for It | Daily Essay

    He had one lap before the engine turned into a lump of molten metal. In 1986 Formula 1 let teams run as much turbo boost as they dared in qualifying. Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

  5. hace 4 días

    Cold Water Beats a Pep Talk | Daily Essay

    Mental state is a lagging output of physical state. When your energy drags, the default move is to fight your mind directly, but biology responds to physical triggers in seconds. Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

  6. hace 5 días

    Is Getting Rich Luck or Hard Work? | The Market vs. You

    Finance splits an investment return into beta and alpha. Beta is what the market gave you just for showing up. Alpha is what your skill added on top. A founder who catches a rising tide can drift forward and mistake the current for their own stroke. When multiple scientists discover calculus or the telephone simultaneously, the era's beta did the heavy lifting. Alpha shows up when the result depended on who was in the room. When you size up a win, separate the current from the stroke. Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

  7. hace 6 días

    The Downward Spiral of Oscar Wilde | Daily Essay

    A flywheel accelerates bad trajectories as easily as good ones. Oscar Wilde's fatal libel suit reveals why intelligent people walk straight into obvious blunders when momentum takes over. Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

  8. 20 ago

    What Everyone Gets Wrong About Continuous Improvement | Daily Essay

    The drugs were killing people. In April 1989 the safety board stopped the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial. Testing an assumption exposes you to temporary downside to discover what actually works. Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

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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.

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