Featured in 2 Dru's Notes episodes.
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.
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 ...
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.
Erik Seidel folds king-nine because a weak side card leaves you drawing to second-best. Warren Buffett skipped that fold in 1962, spent 20 years buying looms for a dying textile mill...
Napoleon's surgeon-in-chief had more wounded men than surgeons, so he threw rank out and sorted by injury instead. Alexander Kotov wrote the same move down for chess in 1971, and Hen...
Keyshia Cole sold a million copies of an album about love, then used one bridge for a bigger instruction: know your focus. Life seats you at several tables at once and the chips are ...
My chess wins are funded by other people's losses. Every rating point I take comes off someone else's number, and the same is true of status: rank in a crowd has to be taken from som...
Rick Guerin had the same returns as Buffett and Munger. He borrowed to get there faster and lost his seat at the table. The same leverage runs through a hedge fund of Nobel winners a...
A single curious question became Multi and the biggest payoff of my year. You can't tell how much an experiment will pay off before you run it, so run more of them.
John Rawls wrote a thought experiment about the original position. Imagine you're behind a veil, about to be born, but you don't know where.
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 ...
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.
Most investors argue about concentration versus diversification. The best ones think evolutionarily. Strategy follows the environment, not preference.