The Friendly Bear
David Capablanca
Podcast
Dru's Notes
Dru Riley
One mental model each day in a few minutes. Habits, business, building products and thinking clearly. From Dru Riley, founder of Trends.vc.
Episódios
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The Economics of Losing Money on Purpose | Daily Essay
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Uber lost over $1 billion a year in China and sold out to its rival. In the US, the same bet won. When the winner takes most of a market, losing money now can raise your odds of winning it. Featuring: Jack Ma, Chris Dixon Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn any conte...
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Remove Choices to Save Your Willpower | Daily Essay
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Each use of your willpower draws from the same depletable reservoir. Ray Bradbury, Ed Viesturs and Andie MacDowell show three ways to save it: change your environment, automate decisions and delete decisions. Featuring: Ray Bradbury, Ed Viesturs, Andie MacDowell, Jean-Jacques Rousseau Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp:...
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I Launched a Product a Day for 17 Days (Then Burned Out) | Daily Essay
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I launched a product a day and burned out 17 days in, because the habit counted launches and rewarded nothing else. An Output Habit counts what you finish and an Input Habit counts the time you put in. Bill Atkinson, Jonathan Coulton and Ed Whitlock show what each one rewards, and three questions pick the type for your own habits. Featuring: Bill Atkinson, Jonathan Coulton, Ed Whitlock, Upton Sinc...
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The Psychology of Getting Comedy From Failure | Trevor Noah | Daily Essay
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Comedians get better after a bad night because whatever happens to them becomes stories for the next set. Trevor Noah tries new things knowing they'll either work or give him comedy. Massimo Bottura turned a dropped lemon tart into one of his signature desserts. Featuring: Trevor Noah, Esther Perel, Massimo Bottura, Takahiko Kondo, Carrie Fisher Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you b...
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The Viral Trap: How Social Media Keeps What You Make | Daily Essay
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Reddit priced the Apollo app out of business, Kayla Newman was never paid for "on fleek," and Nipsey Hussle bought the strip mall he once sold CDs in front of. Why I post every essay on a site I own first, then share it on X. Featuring: Christian Selig, Kayla Newman, Nipsey Hussle Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Kno...
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The 4 Habit Levels Where Results Get Insane | Daily Essay
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Bryson DeChambeau's first year of bulking bought him about 20 yards. His second bought him less than two. Anatoly Karpov led Garry Kasparov 5-0 in the 1984 world chess title match, then lost about 22 pounds and watched his lead shrink to 5-3. Featuring: Bryson DeChambeau, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Kabir Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets an...
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When You're Winning... And Lose Everything | Daily Essay
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A man from Poland and I each had five minutes to checkmate the other. He took one of my pawns. He was still up on points when he lost. Featuring: Lindsey Jacobellis, Tanja Frieden, Harry G. Summers Jr. Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn any content...
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The Chinese Mastermind Group Behind Volvo | Daily Essay
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Before Li Shufu spent $1.8 billion on Volvo, he asked 20 other Chinese founders in his club to argue about it. Paul Jarvis, Nathan Barry and Warren Buffett each had a few people who met with them regularly. Featuring: Li Shufu, Liu Chuanzhi, Paul Jarvis, Justin Jackson, Jarrod Drysdale, Nathan Barry, Barrett Brooks, Caleb Wojcik, James Clear, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Napoleon Hill Watch on...
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You've Read Enough. It's Time to Start Using It. | Daily Essay
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Calcium makes bones stronger only once they carry weight, and what you learn builds a skill only once you try to use it. Jim Koch had three Harvard degrees and had never sold anything until twenty bars a day taught him how to sell. Featuring: Jim Koch, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know...
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I Learned This the Hard Way: Write Down Your Rules | Daily Essay
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One of the rules I read each morning could have saved me three years: don't force it. In 1846 Peter Panum found the old people of the Faroe Islands stayed healthy through a measles outbreak, because their bodies kept a record of the last one. Your rules for living work the same way, but only when you remember them. Featuring: Peter Panum, George Santayana Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brough...
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The Compounding Trap: Why Selling a Winner Costs You | Daily Essay
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Grace Groner bought three shares of Abbott Laboratories for $180 in 1935. When she died at 100 they were worth more than $7 million. A business, a skill, a friendship and a habit compound the same way if you keep showing up for years. Featuring: Grace Groner, Jeff Bezos Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your...
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I Read 1,000s of Founder Stories. Most Won by Copying… | Daily Essay
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The first founder to build in a market tends to prove demand, then watches someone who came in later take it. Pebble, Snapchat and Ahrefs show how it plays out, and why marketplaces and networks are the exception. Featuring: Eric Migicovsky, Dmitry Gerasimenko, Sam Walton Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when yo...
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How to Do 2.5 Hours of Deep Work (It's Easier Than You Think) | Daily Essay
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I just heard someone explain the biggest misconception about Transcendental Meditation: that you're supposed to stop thinking. In TM you silently repeat a word called a mantra, your mind wanders and you come back to it. Featuring: Thomas Keating, Simone Weil, Swami Vivekananda Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know wh...
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Which Business Model Suits Your Personality? | Daily Essay
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Pieter Levels runs two apps alone on one server. April Dunford's fees stop the week she does. WeWork raised round after round until it filed for Chapter 11. Eleven plants map to eleven kinds of business. Pick the one your temperament will keep alive. Featuring: Washington Irving, Pieter Levels, Markus Frind, Patrick McKenzie, April Dunford, Jim Buckmaster, Shaun Hill, Andy Yen, Thomas Frank, Dan N...
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Same Habits, Different Days: My Daily Experiments | Daily Essay
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To prove my friend wrong about habits, I sent him a photo of Thai chilies. His meme said discipline makes each day look the same, and one of my habits is to run experiments each day. Featuring: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ferran Adrià Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do...
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Remind Yourself Who The F*ck You Are. | Daily Essay
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Tim Ferriss kept a jar of awesome, slips of good moments he read when he felt down. I keep a highlight reel, a list of my wins, and read it each morning. Olympic diver Laura Wilkinson watched a video of her best dives before each meet and won gold months after breaking her foot. Featuring: Tim Ferriss, Laura Wilkinson Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new m...
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Every Type of Courage Explained | Which One Do You Have? | Daily Essay
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You can run a marathon and still dodge a hard talk with your wife. Courage comes in three kinds: mental, social and physical. Bravery in one kind stays in that kind. Featuring: Alex Hormozi, Jia Jiang Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn any content i...
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The Power of Focus: What Early AI Models Taught Me | Daily Essay
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In 2012 I gave a side project two hours of deep work each morning before my day job. It failed and I dropped the habit with it. METR grades AI models by the longest task they can finish, and a person with chopped-up attention is stuck where GPT-2 was. Featuring: Ken Thompson, Llion Jones Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. Heads...
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The 1 Rule That Stops Me Raising My Goals Too Soon | Daily Essay
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A week of easy runs had me ready to make an hour my new floor. Then I remembered the run my rule asks for first. Seán Quinn's 35 years of wins ended in a €3 billion loss on one Irish bank. Featuring: Seán Quinn, Carl Sagan Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Mul...
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What a Depression Drug Taught Me About Rich People's Habits | Daily Essay
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I looked up dozens of people who got rich before 50 and what they did each day. When I went looking for people with the same habits who never got rich, I could barely find any. Featuring: Ben Goldacre, Warren Buffett, John D. Rockefeller, Galeazzo Ciano Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move...
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If It Fits, It Sticks | Daily Essay
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I love to bike, but I run instead, because on foot I feel safer. After cars killed more than 3,000 people in the Netherlands in 1971, the Dutch kept biking and changed their environment instead. Featuring: Vic Langenhoff Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi...
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I Quit The ONE Thing Three Times Before I Got It Right | Daily Essay
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Scored on the finish, my one thing shrank until it took a few minutes. The work I cared about barely moved, until I heard Gary Keller say he blocks four hours a day for his. Featuring: Gary Keller, Raymond Chandler, Alex Hormozi, Cal Newport, Charles Darwin, Haruki Murakami Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when...
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A Day on the Moon. A Decade of Depression. | Daily Essay
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Buzz Aldrin spent 21 hours on the moon and the next decade fighting depression and alcoholism. Some goals give you a high and fade. Others make each ordinary day better after you reach them. Featuring: Buzz Aldrin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pete Adeney Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before...
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Why “Systems Not Goals” Is a Trap | Daily Essay
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A goal needs a system to reach it. A system needs a goal to give it direction. Featuring: Maurice Ashley, Bill Walsh, Seneca Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. Chapters: (00:00) Seneca's port (00:06) Maurice Ashley...
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The Truth About Running Multiple Businesses at Once | Daily Essay
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I spread one daily marketing block across 8 products and each one lost momentum while I tended to the other seven. With 8 products sharing that block, each one got marketing time once or twice a week. Featuring: Serena Williams Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do...
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The 4 Anti-Habits That Make My Habits Possible | Daily Essay
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Each day I reach out to 13 people, do 8 courage challenges and run 34 minutes. As my habits grew, I tightened my anti-habits. Haruki Murakami went to bed at 9pm to buy his 4am writing start. Formula 1 brakes let drivers stay at speed longer before each corner. The more aggressive your habits are, the more aggressive your anti-habits need to be. Watch on YouTube Featuring: Shonda Rhimes, Haruki Mur...
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I Use Evolution to Predict Which Markets Survive AI | Daily Essay
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Chegg lost about 99% of its market value while electricians got busier. Markets take the same five routes species take through an ice age: gone, hurt, unchanged, thriving and new. Featuring: Elizabeth Kolbert Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn any c...
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What Google's M&M Jars Taught Me About Willpower | Daily Essay
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Ten years back, my interior designer wanted to put a bar cart in my house. Put liquor in plain sight and you're subconsciously primed. Move it out of sight and the thought doesn't form. Featuring: Leonardo da Vinci Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn...
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What a 20-Mile Night Run Taught Me About Negative Returns | Daily Essay
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Kiese Laymon ran at least six miles a day for 2,564 days straight until his body broke. With most good things, more does less each time. With a few, more starts producing the harm it was protecting you from. Featuring: Kiese Laymon, Dongfang Shuo Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers...
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How I Play Aggressive But Safe | Daily Essay
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Blue team defends a system. Red team breaks in. The defender needs to be perfect, while the attacker only has to find a single error. Featuring: Biggie Smalls, Cory Doctorow, Phil Hellmuth Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn any content into a YouTub...
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