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Dru's Notes — 105 episodes

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1

Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can't | Daily Essay

2

Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work | Daily Essay

3

The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing | Daily Essay

4

You're Not Lazy. The Step Is Too Steep. | Daily Essay

5

4 Things I'd Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything. | Daily Essay

6

Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator | Daily Essay

7

The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It. | Daily Essay

8

Why I Can't Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax) | Daily Essay

9

Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks | Daily Essay

10

Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100 | Daily Essay

11

Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio | Daily Essay

12

Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No | Daily Essay

13

I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke | Daily Essay

14

Your Habits Are Only as Strong as Your Worst Day | Daily Essay

15

My Cold Shower Got Better. My Business Didn't. | Daily Essay

16

An AI Named the One Trait That Predicts Success | Daily Essay

17

Centralize or Decentralize: How to Actually Decide | Daily Essay

18

How to Make Hard Decisions When You Already Know | Daily Essay

19

How to Attract the Right Clients With Your Price | Daily Essay

20

Customer Lifetime Value: What ConvertKit Got Wrong | Daily Essay

21

How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough | Daily Essay

22

Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs | Daily Essay

23

Think on Paper to Keep Your Principles Sharp | Daily Essay

24

Get More Done by Counting What You Finish | Daily Essay

25

Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem | Daily Essay

26

I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started. | Daily Essay

27

How to Get Startup Ideas: Build the "Dumb" One First | Daily Essay

28

Why Comfort Will Ruin Your Life: The Turkey Problem | Daily Essay

29

To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits | Daily Essay

30

Fail Fast, Fail Often: My 1-in-20 Hit Rate | Daily Essay

31

Why Achieving Goals Doesn't Make You Happy | Daily Essay

32

Turning Failure Into Success: 7,000 Subs, Zero Sales | Daily Essay

33

Don't Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past | Daily Essay

34

Not All Trade-Offs Are Real | Daily Essay

35

Why Smart People Stay Broke | Daily Essay

36

Your Morning Habits Work. The Order Doesn't. | Daily Essay

37

Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Niche | Daily Essay

38

How to Get Good Ideas | Daily Essay

39

Why Good Habits Get Boring | Daily Essay

40

The One Minute Rule for Habits That Stick | Daily Essay

41

Warren Buffett's Ovarian Lottery: Are You Born Lucky? | Daily Essay

42

Consistent But No Progress? It's the Hurdle Rate | Daily Essay

43

How to Make Habits Stick When Life Pushes Back | Daily Essay

44

Substitute, Don't Subtract: How to Break a Habit | Daily Essay

45

Engineered Addiction: Why I Deleted the App | Daily Essay

46

Habits of Great Writers, Founders and Investors | Daily Essay

47

What a Mastermind Group Actually Does | Daily Essay

48

Charlie Munger's Learning Machine (In Plain English) | Daily Essay

49

Don't Believe Everything You Think. Test It. | Daily Essay

50

5 Things Chess Teaches Us About Life | Daily Essay

51

Build Systems So Your Work Runs on Easy Mode | Daily Essay

52

We Are All Investors | Daily Essay

53

The Optimization Trap That Broke My Meditation Habit | Daily Essay

54

How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Faster | Daily Essay

55

Lee Kuan Yew: Engineered Sovereignty | Biography

56

Why I Rewrite My Principles by Hand | Daily Essay

57

The Minimalist Philosophy of a Jellyfish | Daily Essay

58

Why Some Habits Stick: 12 Tardigrade Traits | Daily Essay

59

Buy the Red Ocean | Daily Essay

60

When to Give Up on a Business: Force or Flow? | Daily Essay

61

Ray Dalio's 42-Year Daily Habit | Daily Essay

62

How Meditation Eats Stress | Daily Essay

63

Satoshi Nakamoto: Absent Authority | Biography

64

Mental Toughness via Meditation

65

From Self Taught Programmer to Senior in Under 2 Years

66

Willpower Is Finite (How to Do Hard Things Anyway)

67

The Morning Habits That Stick (Why Order Matters)

68

Eat Your Own Cooking

69

Flywheel Explained: One Action, Many Wins

70

Manifesting Is Learned Helplessness in Reverse

71

Launch First, Name Later

72

I Deleted Social Media. Here's What I Kept.

73

Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math

74

Warren Buffett vs Y Combinator: Two Strategies, One Rule

75

The Tardigrade Test: How to Build Habits That Last

76

How I Get Business Ideas

77

Simulation Thinking: How to Make Hard Decisions

78

The Hidden Cost of Moving: Decision Fatigue

79

Time Is Not Your Most Valuable Asset

80

How to Prioritize When You Have Too Many Ideas

81

I Had Too Many Habits. Here's What Saved Me.

82

Most Habit Trackers Miss the Point

83

How I Build Habits That Don't Break

84

How to Close a Chapter Without Regret

85

What an AI Playing Breakout Taught Me About Reality

86

Why Smart People Underperform

87

The Cure For Anxiety Is Doing More Of It

88

We Live in the Wild. Not the Zoo.

89

How I Use a Paper To-Do List to Finish What Actually Matters

90

Long-Haul Luxuries: Why I Only Buy Things Built To Last

91

Why I Call Everything v0.1 Before I Launch

92

The Second-Time Rule: Turn Fixes Into Systems

93

What 2,000 Days of Building in Public Proved

94

Do Less, Get Better: I Removed a Good Chapter

95

Why the Simplest Version Takes the Most Work

96

Ship Before It's Ready

97

Justified Complexity

98

I Left My Job in 2017. Here's What 10 Years Proved.

99

The Nobel Prize Got Loss Aversion Wrong

100

Why Rest Days Made Everything Harder

101

Prediction Markets Are Accurate (That's the Problem)

102

The Trade You Make 100 Times a Day

103

I Run Every Business Idea Through These 11 Filters

104

Will AI Take Your Job? The Rebuttal Is Incomplete

105

Why I Went to the Gym at Midnight (The Streak Method)