Dru's Notes

About Dru's Notes

One mental model each day in a few minutes. Habits, business, building products and thinking clearly. From Dru Riley, founder of Trends.vc.

Publisher

Dru Riley

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Mar 2026

Latest episode

24 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

217 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Oct 2026

   Selling 10 Million Albums and Ending Up With Nothing | Daily Essay

   TLC's CrazySexyCool sold over 10 million copies, and a year later all three women filed for bankruptcy. Alexey Pajitnov built Tetris and earned nothing from it for about 12 years.

2. 

   24 Oct 2026

   Why Are Some Jobs Paid More Than Others? | Daily Essay

   New York's 1968 garbage strike buried the city in 9 days and won the workers a few hundred dollars. An anesthesiologist earns more than 8 times a nursing assistant's pay, and ASML keeps 29 cents of each euro while Kroger keeps under 2. What becomes valuable as AI learns to do more of our work?

3. 

   23 Oct 2026

   Motivation Wears Off. Here's What I Do Each Morning. | Daily Essay

   My first rule is focus on what you control. Roughly 80% of my anxiety comes from losing sight of it. Hermann Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve shows why a rule you know still slips and why I reread mine each morning and most nights.

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