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One mental model each day in a few minutes. Habits, business, building products and thinking clearly. From Dru Riley, founder of Trends.vc.
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English
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232 episodes
since March 26, 2026
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For days my HeadsUp landing page was broken, and the board I read each day kept counting visitors. GitLab's backups warned the team each day, mice without dopamine starved beside their food, and Frank Meeks read the Pentagon's pizza orders before three invasions.
Featuring: Richard Palmiter, Frank…
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For years I believed the bigger my habits were, the bigger my anti-habits needed to be. A 6-hour eating window, a 4pm finish, a century of fire suppression in Yellowstone and Marc Randolph's Tuesday nights show where a rule starts working against the goal it guards.
Featuring: Marc Randolph, Aldo …
Noise canceling headphones flip a sound wave upside down so the 2 waves cancel out. The same move put out a burning gas well, ended the panic of 1825, saved Wag Dodge at Mann Gulch and turned one computer worm against another.
Featuring: Wag Dodge, Norman Maclean, Jeremiah Harman
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A farming habit repeats the same action for a return you can count on. A hunting habit keeps time open for whatever opportunity shows up, and the stories of Jesse Livermore, Ronald Wayne, Andre Geim and Sara Blakely show what each one costs and buys.
Featuring: Jesse Livermore, Stu Ungar, Carl Fis…
I've spent 6 years studying businesses for Trends.vc. Lately a new kind of customer shows up in the companies I study: the AI agent.
Featuring: Paul English, Nick Gray, Benjamin Houy, Nikita Shamgunov, Ivan Burazin, Will Bryk, Guillermo Rauch, Zeno Rocha
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Each day I sit for insight meditation. When I write morning pages first, the meditation goes much deeper, and George Carlin, Sonny Rollins and the surgeon Butch Rosser each had a pair like it.
Featuring: George Carlin, Sonny Rollins, James Rosser, Aidan Levy
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Each day I do a few things that scare me. Before I start one, I give it a score out of 100 for how hard I expect it to be.
Featuring: Annie Duke, Ray Dalio, Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
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I've written a daily essay for almost 300 days. Most days what I publish falls short of what I imagined. Ira Glass explains why and what closes the gap.
Featuring: Ira Glass
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HeadsUp: Know when your competi…
A year of life gets reviewed in about an hour when each night's notes roll into the week, the month, the quarter and the year. Surgeon Ernest Codman read his own records back, found 123 mistakes and published them all.
Featuring: Ernest Codman, William Mallon
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Sleepy drivers who drank coffee and then took a nap of under 15 minutes cut driving incidents by 91%. Caffeine alone cut them by about two-thirds. Some pieces unlock an ability none of them has alone, on the chessboard and in habits, money and teams.
Featuring: Louise Reyner, Jim Horne, Katy Milkm…
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