This week’s Founder Finds includes:
♟️ When to quit?
💵 Naval on sales
🗂️ A bookmark manager
🧠 AI-powered habit change
🤖 An introduction to Hermes
➡️ And more…
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🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
💵 Naval on Sales shared by Barun Pandey
A podcast episode with Naval
🗂️ Raindrop.io shared by Stan Wilson
An all-in-one bookmark manager tool
🤖 Why I’m Switching to Hermes shared by Elia Zane
An introduction to using Hermes Agent
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🚧 Dru Riley published Consistent But No Progress? It’s the Hurdle Rate, on how consistency can kill you
📅 Maciej Cupial launched Calendesk in the ChatGPT Store
🤖 Alexandre Kantjas is hosting a workshop on Claude Cowork
⚽ Elie Steinbock launched a fantasy football game for the World Cup
🎧 Listen To
What Will AI-Powered Habit Change Actually Look Like?
Here’s a breakdown of what the military figured out that most productivity advice misses.
- Understand the cue-routine-reward loop. The brain doesn’t distinguish between good and bad habits. It just runs the loop automatically, which means you can hack it by changing the cue or the reward.
- Design for immediate rewards. Habits tied to long-term goals (saving money, losing weight) fail because the brain needs a near-term payoff to reinforce the loop.
- Treat willpower like a battery. It depletes throughout the day, which is why planning for relapse matters more than hoping you’ll stay strong.
🛠️ Tools of the Week
🎞️ Multi — Grow on YouTube on autopilot
🧿 HeadsUp.bot — Stay ahead of competitors
✨ Charm — Get customers through Google and AI Search
💵 StockDrifts — Visual stock research that builds conviction fast
❔ Ask Yourself
How Does “Train the Monkey” Mental Model Save Founders Millions?
Annie Duke is a decision science expert and former poker pro. She says that founders who learn to quit are building better companies than those who never do.
- Recognize pivot as a quit. Stewart Butterfield quit building an online game and made Slack. The Notion founders threw out all their code and rebuilt from scratch.
- Set kill criteria. Write down specific states and dates. “If by [date] I haven’t reached [specific metric], I quit.” Doing this early is the only way to avoid moving the goalposts when you’re inside the failure.
- Tackle the monkey before the pedestal. Find the hardest, most uncertain part of your idea first. Every “low hanging fruit” you pick before solving the bottleneck creates sunk costs and an illusion of progress.
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