Dru's Notes

Each day I open a board with my business numbers and ask one question of each: am I above or below my 30-day median? John Walker's bathroom scale shows why one day is the wrong unit.

Ten minutes of a podcast teaches me more than an hour with most books. Dale Carnegie, Yuval Noah Harari and Jerry Seinfeld all worked their material out in front of people before it reached a page.

New York's sanitation workers broke a state law to strike in 1968, and with every driver out at once they won their raise. An anesthesiologist earns more than $350,000 while a nursing assistant earns about $42,000, and ASML keeps 29 cents of each dollar w

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.

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.