Dru's Notes

I cut a chapter from my habits book. The chapter was good. The book is better without it. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Simple code is easier to fix, easier to read, easier to maintain. Getting to simple is the hard part. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

Prediction markets aggregate real information from people with real stakes. The accuracy is real. The influence that some participants have over the outcome is also real. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Each choice you make is an investment. You invest time, energy, attention, willpower. Sometimes money. The question is: what's your ROI? Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

I've run hundreds of business ideas through 11 pass-or-fail filters. HeadsUp, Multi and Charm survived. Each filter covers personal use, daily frequency, platform potential, counter-positioning, portfolio fit, energy, revenue proximity, marginal costs, market size, passive value and evidence of demand. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Most tea bags contain plastic. Switching to loose leaf solved one problem and created another. Problems beget problems. And when it comes to AI and jobs, the rebuttal everyone repeats is incomplete. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.