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Interviews
- #016 — Dru Riley (Yo! Podcast)
- Behind the Success of Trends.vc (Indie Bites)
- Crypto Literacy, Daily Habits, and New Business Ideas (Indie Hackers)
- Dru Riley – 45,000+ email subscribers in less than 2 years (Creative Elements)
- Jamming with Dru Riley from Trends.vc (Startup to Last)
- Meta-Trends, Paid Newsletters + Crypto (Creator Lab)
- Persisting Through Failures to Find a Winning Trend (Indie Hackers)
- Product Trends with Dru Riley (UI Breakfast)
- Q&A with Dru Riley + Inbox Innovations (Not Boring)
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- 🔁 Habits
- 🧘 Mindfulness
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- 🧪 Experiments
- 🧭 Thinking
- 🧬 Evolution
- 🔨 Building
- 🌀 Flywheel
- 📈 Investing
- 💯 100 Rules to Live By
Writing
- 🧾 His Joke Was So Bad It Cost £500 Million
- 🏃 You’re Not Overthinking. You’re Under-Moving.
- 📄 How I Got My First Customer With 8 Notion Docs
- 📊 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
- 📈 AI’s 7-Month Doubling Rule
- 🎲 Y Combinator’s 1,000-to-1 Bet
- 🔥 Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule
- 🎚️ You’re Not Undisciplined. Your Habit Is Too Big.
- 🌅 The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification
- ⛏️ The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing
- ♟️ Everything Feels Important? It’s a Ranking Problem
- 📝 Neil Gaiman’s Two-Draft Rule
- 🧭 Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
- 🗺️ Your Habit List Is a Single Point of Failure
- 🫥 You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
- ♠️ Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
- 🔒 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
- 🟢 Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
- 🪦 The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
- 🌊 Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Isn’t About Sleep. Ask Hermès.
- 🧲 Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
- 🏙️ The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
- 🪂 From $32 Billion to 25 Years: The Math He Skipped
- 🔁 The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
- 🏃 Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
- 🤿 How to Focus on One Thing All Day
- 🫖 One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
- 😴 The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
- 🎲 Chase Risk Before It Chases You
- 🪵 The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
- ♠️ Work-Life Balance Is a Myth. Choose Your Table.
- 🏷️ I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
- ⏳ Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
- ⚔️ You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
- 🪝 The Con I Run on Myself to Start Working
- 🪡 Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
- 🔦 The 10pm Rule I Failed for Two Years
- 🏀 The NBA Deleted a Shot. Your Habit Needs the Same.
- 🚪 Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
- 🕒 The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
- 🗺️ The Map Is Not the Territory (And Why That’s Fine)
- 🏦 Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
- 🧱 Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
- ⏳ The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing
- 🪜 You’re Not Lazy. The Step Is Too Steep.
- ⏪ 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
- 🥋 Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
- 🍋 The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It.
- 🪞 Why I Can’t Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax)
- 🔒 Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
- 📿 Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100
- 📈 Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio
- 🚪 Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No
- 🪡 I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke
- 🌧️ Your Habits Are Only as Strong as Your Worst Day
- 🚰 My Cold Shower Got Better. My Business Didn’t.
- 🌫️ An AI Named the One Trait That Predicts Success
- 🧠 Centralize or Decentralize: How to Actually Decide
- 🎲 How to Make Hard Decisions When You Already Know
- 🧲 How to Attract the Right Clients With Your Price
- 🧾 Customer Lifetime Value: What ConvertKit Got Wrong
- 🦎 How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
- 🐢 Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
- 🔄 Think on Paper to Keep Your Principles Sharp
- ⏱️ Get More Done by Counting What You Finish
- 🧱 Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
- 🧾 I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
- 🪆 How to Get Startup Ideas: Build the “Dumb” One First
- 🦃 Why Comfort Will Ruin Your Life: The Turkey Problem
- 🧪 To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
- 🎯 Fail Fast, Fail Often: My 1-in-20 Hit Rate
- 🎢 Why Achieving Goals Doesn’t Make You Happy
- ♻️ Turning Failure Into Success: 7,000 Subs, Zero Sales
- 🪨 Don’t Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past
- 🧠 Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
- 💸 Why Smart People Stay Broke
- 🔁 Your Morning Habits Work. The Order Doesn’t.
- 🎲 Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Niche
- 🧵 How to Get Good Ideas
- 🎮 Why Good Habits Get Boring
- ⏱️ The One Minute Rule for Habits That Stick
- 🎟️ Warren Buffett’s Ovarian Lottery: Are You Born Lucky?
- ⚖️ Consistent But No Progress? It’s the Hurdle Rate
- 📈 How to Make Habits Stick When Life Pushes Back
- 🎷 Substitute, Don’t Subtract: How to Break a Habit
- 🎣 Engineered Addiction: Why I Deleted the App
- 🔁 Habits of Great Writers, Founders and Investors
- 🌊 What a Mastermind Group Actually Does
- 🧠 Charlie Munger’s Learning Machine (In Plain English)
- 🧪 Don’t Believe Everything You Think. Test It.
- ♟️ 5 Things Chess Teaches Us About Life
- ⚙️ Build Systems So Your Work Runs on Easy Mode
- 🤝 We Are All Investors
- 🪨 The Optimization Trap That Broke My Meditation Habit
- 🚪 How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Faster
- ✍️ Why I Rewrite My Principles by Hand
- 🪼 The Minimalist Philosophy of a Jellyfish
- 🐢 Why Some Habits Stick: 12 Tardigrade Traits
- 🔬 Buy the Red Ocean
- 🚫 When to Give Up on a Business: Force or Flow?
- 🍎 Ray Dalio’s 42-Year Daily Habit
- 🧘 How Meditation Eats Stress
- 🪨 Mental Toughness via Meditation
- 🧗 From Self Taught Programmer to Senior in Under 2 Years
- 🪫 Willpower Is Finite (How to Do Hard Things Anyway)
- 🗂️ The Morning Habits That Stick (Why Order Matters)
- 📡 Eat Your Own Cooking
- ♻️ Flywheel Explained: One Action, Many Wins
- 🔄 Manifesting Is Learned Helplessness in Reverse
- 🚀 Launch First, Name Later
- 🔥 I Deleted Social Media. Here’s What I Kept.
- 🪶 Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
- 🧬 Warren Buffett vs Y Combinator: Two Strategies, One Rule
- 🐢 The Tardigrade Test: How to Build Habits That Last
- 💡 How I Get Business Ideas
- 🎭 Simulation Thinking: How to Make Hard Decisions
- 🪫 The Hidden Cost of Moving: Decision Fatigue
- 👁️ Time Is Not Your Most Valuable Asset
- 🎯 How to Prioritize When You Have Too Many Ideas
- 🛑 I Had Too Many Habits. Here’s What Saved Me.
- 🌡️ Most Habit Trackers Miss the Point
- 🏋️ How I Build Habits That Don’t Break
- 🕯️ How to Close a Chapter Without Regret
- 🕹️ What an AI Playing Breakout Taught Me About Reality
- 🪟 Why Smart People Underperform
- 💪 The Cure For Anxiety Is Doing More Of It
- 🔍 We Live in the Wild. Not the Zoo.
- 🗒️ How I Use a Paper To-Do List to Finish What Actually Matters
- 🔪 Long-Haul Luxuries: Why I Only Buy Things Built To Last
- 🌱 Why I Call Everything v0.1 Before I Launch
- 🔮 The Second-Time Rule: Turn Fixes Into Systems
- 🌅 What 2,000 Days of Building in Public Proved
- ➖ Do Less, Get Better: I Removed a Good Chapter
- ✂️ Why the Simplest Version Takes the Most Work
- ⚡ Ship Before It’s Ready
- ⚙️ Justified Complexity
- 🪂 I Left My Job in 2017. Here’s What 10 Years Proved.
- 🕳️ The Nobel Prize Got Loss Aversion Wrong
- 💪 Why Rest Days Made Everything Harder
- 💰 Prediction Markets Are Accurate (That’s the Problem)
- 🧮 The Trade You Make 100 Times a Day
- 🚦 I Run Every Business Idea Through These 11 Filters
- 🪆 Will AI Take Your Job? The Rebuttal Is Incomplete
- 🏋️ Why I Went to the Gym at Midnight (The Streak Method)
- 📕 The One-Morning Rule for Impossible Goals
- 📎 I Ran 150 Tests and Learned When to Quit
- 💣 I Got Lucky. That’s the Problem.
- 🎲 How to Get Lucky in Life
- ⏱️ How I Beat Perfectionism With a 3-Minute Clock
- 🌡️ What Soros Knew About Prediction Markets
- 🫀 Your Customers Aren’t Churning. You Are.
- 🔇 The Sound That Trained Me to Overwork
- 🃏 My Launch Got One Like
- ⚗️ Confidence Is a Side Effect
- 🧩 The Advice That Wrecked My Health
- 🔮 Build Assets Around Your AI, Not Conversations
- 🔬 Send from Your Name
- 🧭 The Middle Is Unknowable
- 🪞 Check If the Desire Is Yours
- 🎲 The Four Games
- ⚖️ Somebody Has to Absorb It
- 🚫 Use Your Rejections
- 🧫 Start With One Experiment
- 🎲 Fuck Around to Find Out
- 🔑 Change One Thing at a Time
- ✂️ The One-Hour Trap
- ⚡ The First Dollar
- 🛹 Skateboard to Space Station
- 🔧 Not Useful, Yet
- 🔗 Experiment Chains
- 🏁 Force Ranking
- 🎯 The Point Is to Try
- 🏔️ Climb to See the Next Peak
- 🔗 Composable Experiments
- 🏗️ How a Notion Doc Became a SaaS
- 🔁 Stop Prompting. Start Training.
- 🛠️ Be Your First Customer
- ⚠️ High-Output, Hidden Risk
- 👥 Twin-Driven Development
- 💤 Background Businesses
- 📅 How I Review a Year in One Hour
- 🦹♀️ From Decent to Dominant
- 🎨 More Examples Make It Easier
- 🔁 The Replay Protocol
- ☀️ The Experiment That Changed My Mornings
- ✈️ Micro-Failure vs Macro-Failure
- 🧬 Founder-Nature Fit
- 💜 Make Yourself the Moat
- 📨 Why I Check Email Once a Week
- 🔎 Easy Choices, Hard Life
- 🧪 How a Failed Pre-Sell Built My Business
- 🏋️♂️ Compound Lifts
- ♟️ Don’t Waste Pain
- 🔪 Is It Necessary?
- 🎲 If You Can’t Lose, You Aren’t Playing
- 🫵 Words Are Software
- 🩸 Pick Your Pain
- 🆔 How-I Beats How-To
- 🐸 Eat the Frog Last
- ⚓ The Resistance Rule
- 🤏 Start Laughably Small
- 🛡️ No One Owes You Sh*t
- ✍️ Friction is the Feature
- 🏚️ Why I Love When Things Break
- 🏃♂️ Why 1% Better Isn’t Enough
- 🧱 Not Perfect, But Better
- 💎 Simplicity Through Intensity
- 🚩 The Hidden Cost of Unreliability
- 🪴 Atomic Ivy Lee Method
- 📊 The Habit Range System
- 🌱 How I Built a Paid Community to 1,000+ Members in 10 Months
- ⏳ 3 Years. No Income.
- 📡 Signal-to-Noise
- ⚠️ Platform Risk
- 🚀 Venture Scale
- 💸 Million-Dollar No Code Businesses
- 📜 100 Rules — Personal Philosophy
