Dru's Notes

Great operators run two stacks every day: the work stack and the distribution stack. This episode maps how writers, founders and investors build both, and why one stack alone leaves great work unseen. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Three years of zero income ended in two hours because someone in a room saw what I couldn't. The five things a mastermind does that solo work can't replicate. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Charlie Munger said this when asked how to live a good life. Your learning rate is your investment rate. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

For 15 years I believed meditation had to be the first thing after waking. One experiment with sun exposure dissolved that 15-year belief in 48 hours. The more experiments you run, the more fit you become to your environment, and the more accurate your model of the world. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

I sat down to play one game of chess. Twelve hours later the day was gone. Five lessons from the board that run my work and my life. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

I draft most posts on walks now. One experiment, voice-to-text, changed how much leverage every post gets. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Say the word investor and most people picture money. Money is one resource among several you trade every day to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

I broke my meditation practice many times over fifteen years. The pattern was always the same. A working practice, the impulse to make it more efficient, and a feedback loop too delayed to catch in time. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Three types of experiments — mental, physical, social — cost different amounts of energy. The type you avoid most is usually the one to lean into next. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Lee Kuan Yew built one of the most efficient states in modern history and engineered the legal toolkit that kept his party in office for fifty-six years. Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Each day I'd open my notebook and copy yesterday's principles to a new page by hand. Some lines I wrote without thinking. Others slowed me down. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Each day I remove three things. A physical item, an app off my phone, a subscription on autopay. A jellyfish has no brain and has lasted 500 million years. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

I came up with a term to describe something I value. If tardigradity is the probability a thing keeps going, it has to come from somewhere. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Most founders see 15 competitors and feel deflated. They should feel relieved. The buyer's move in a red ocean is to switch seats and let the market do the work. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

What's forced falls apart. The line between effort and force is flow, and the test is whether the market is returning what you put in. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Most people treat their morning routine like a battery that runs all day. It doesn't. Meetings, decisions and small frictions bleed it dry by noon. Reading through biographies of Dalio, Dorsey and Harari, I kept hitting the same detail: all of them meditate twice a day. So I added a midday session to test what a second reset actually does. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Not...

Stress is raw material. Meditation metabolizes it. Life supplies the stressors whether you want them or not, and the practice has two modes: clearing the table or going deeper. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Satoshi Nakamoto built money that could run without personal trust, then protected it by becoming impossible to find. This biography traces the technical record, the political timing and the deliberate disappearance of the most consequential anonymous person in financial history. Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

I sit still for two and a half hours each day. Meditation trains a specific muscle: each minute is a rep against the urge to stop or check the time, and that muscle transfers to hard runs, heavy lifts, tense negotiations and cold showers. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

I learned to code alone in Vim, with no one to unblock me. A single bug could cost a month. The high-friction years built the foundation that made everything after compound fast. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Stanford says believe hard enough and your willpower becomes unlimited. Henry Ford said the same thing a century earlier. Turns out the battery drains whether you believe it or not. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

I keep my habits in an app that tracks how often I do each one. The ones at the top of the list have longer streaks. Position is the lever. Willpower is exhaustible. Interruptions stack. The first slot has the most fuel and the least drag. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

Most bug reports travel through three people before anyone fixes them. By then the pain is a paragraph in a ticket and the person who felt it has moved on. There's a shorter path. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

I write a post each morning. By lunch, that post is a video on YouTube. One action that touches more than one node in your system at once. I call this a tap. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.

One line from my prediction markets video kept looping in my head. The market price was supposed to reflect what the crowd believed. It was reflecting those beliefs. It was also changing them. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day.