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I thought bigger muscle just meant more strength. Then a health podcast on a run split capacity from firing. Two fishermen showed why waiting to feel ready is just not starting. Featuring: Dickie Bush, Flannery O'Connor 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) A line I had to rewind (00:15) Bigger muscle just meant more strength (00:19) Muscle is capacity (00:42) Two fishermen who had never cast (01:08) A shitty rod on day one (01:29) Progress first, then optimize Where to find Dru: I write an essay daily. Get them free Follow me on X Watch my video essays on YouTube Follow Dru's Notes on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day. Click here to view the episode transcript.

When I wrote my first Trends.vc reports, I focused on density. Each good piece of content either makes you afraid to stop consuming or unable to stop consuming: the signal-to-noise contract or the escapism contract. Featuring: Flannery O'Connor 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) The story way (00:06) Raw research and density (00:26) Signal to noise (00:46) Escapism and serialization (01:04) Combining signal and story Where to find Dru: I write an essay daily. Get them free Follow me on X Watch my video essays on YouTube Follow Dru's Notes on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day. Click here to view the episode transcript.

The books recommended in this episode are: The Complete Stories (also available for Kindle ) by Flannery O'Connor Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (also available for Kindle ) by Flannery O'Connor, seleceted and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor (also available for Kindle ) by Flannery O'Connor, selected and edited by Sally Fitzgerald A Prayer Journal (also available for Kindle ) by Flannery O'Connor Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist: The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O'Connor's Narrative Art (also available for Kindle ) by Fr. Damian Ference Five Books for Catholics may receive a commission from qualifying purchases made using the affiliate links to the books listed. Mary Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) was a novelist and writer of short stories whose Southern Gothic fiction is informed by a deep Catholic faith. Born and raised in Georgia, after graduating from college, she earned a master’s degree at the University of Iowa’s prestigious Iowa Writer’s Workshop, after which she embarked upon a career as a writer. In 1941, her father had died from lupus, and in 1952 she was diagnosed with the same disease. Undeterred by her illness, she attended Mass every day, supported local Catholic newspapers with numerous book reviews, and wrote most of her fiction. She is remembered for her short stories, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1972. In this interview, Fr. Damian Ference will discuss O’Connor’s work. Fr. Damian Ference is a priest of the Diocese of Cleveland where he serves as Vicar for Evangelization, Secretary for Parish Life and Special Ministries, and as Professor of Philosophy at Borromeo Seminary. He holds a licentiate in philosophy from The Catholic University of America and a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He writes regularly on the intersection of faith and culture for a variety of outlets and is the author of the award-winning book, The Strangeness of Truth (Pauline Books & Media, 2019) and <