The latest issue of AWAI’s Barefoot Writer

In this issue:

* What Writers Want Right Now to Get Through 2020 and Thrive Beyond

* Life-Size Ace in Your Back Pocket

* How to Stay Motivated in a World of Weirdness

* Caples’ Kickoff Strategy for Irresistible Copy

* How to Avoid Writing With a Question Mark Over Your Head

* I Wasn’t Built for This; I Am What I Am (or Yam)

Click here to read the October issue.

The latest issue of Independent Healing 

In this issue: “Discover the Ancient Health Practice That Researchers Believe May Offer a ‘Ray of Hope’ in the Fight Against COVID-19.”

Click here to read the October issue

“What Does Warren Buffett Look For in an Employee?” – Click here to read the article.

The latest issue of AWAI’s Barefoot Writer

In this issue:

* “The Whole Game Has Changed”

* How to Propel Your Reader Forward With Sentences That “Look Back Early”

* This Writing Skill Recently Skyrocketed to the Top Tier of All Income-Generating Businesses

* Jeff Dunham’s Secret to Rousing Your Writing Voice(s)

* The Truth Behind Our Writing Culture

Click here to read the September issue.

“One Page a Day Might Save Your Life” by James Altucher 

Click here to read this inspirational story about the inventor of Pringles.

The latest issue of Independent Healing 

In this issue: “Breakthrough Research Reveals the Single Most Important Factor for a Long, Healthy Life”

Researchers with the Framingham Study had a simple but ambitious goal: They wanted to know what factor helps people live long, healthy lives more than any other. Was it good genetics? A healthy diet? Staying slim? Not smoking? Low cholesterol? Exercise?

The scientists did an exhaustive analysis of two decades of detailed health data on 5,200 people. After they crunched the numbers, the results came as a shock.

The most powerful factor for longevity wasn’t any of the things you might expect.

Click here to read the September issue.

Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work
by Ravin Jesuthasan and John W. Boudreau

The Robots Are Coming!: The Future of Jobs in the Age of Automation
by Andres Oppenheimer

This is the reading list that I assigned to myself several years ago – an introduction to the greatest thinkers of all time…

The Ancient Greeks

* Selections from The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer

* One or two tragedies by Aeschylus

* One or two tragedies by Sophocles

* One or two tragedies by Euripides

* A summary of The Histories by Herodotus

* A summary of History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

* A half-dozen of The Dialogues of Plato, including The Republic

And most importantly, the works of Aristotle – in particular, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Metaphysics, Poetics, and Prior Analytics.

The Ancient Romans

* A summary of On the Nature of Things by Lucretius

* The Aeneid by Virgil

* Several of the works of Horace

* A summary of The History of Rome by Livy

* A bit of Metamorphoses by Ovid

* Selections from Parallel Lives by Plutarch

* Selections from Dialogue on Oratory by Tacitus

* The Enchiridion and The Discourses by Epictetus

* A half-dozen of Seneca’s Letters From a Stoic

And most importantly, as much as you can of the treatises of Cicero and the meditations of Marcus Aurelius.

For extra credit, read Aristotle as Poet and The Origins of Criticism by Andrew Ford. And check out two these lecture series by Dr. J. Rufus Fears: Famous Greeks and Famous Romans.

“Two Things to Consider Before Hiring Your Family or Friends” by Joel Salatin 

In reply to an essay I wrote about the danger of hiring family and friends, a fellow essayist wrote this, which I thought was quite good. Click here to read it.

“Panama City vs. Medellin” – I’ve spent time in both. If you’re thinking of getting an escape residence overseas, this is a good comparison of the pros and cons.