Posts by James Newcomb

One of the things I like to do with my podcasts is make reference to having “three listeners”. It’s kind of fun to say, even though I know that there are of course more than 3 people who download each episode just by looking at the stats. I got this idea from a conservative radio…

I published a brand new episode of the Energeia.LIVE podcast this morning, and it talks about FREEEDDDOOOOOMMMMMMM! My guest is Laura Davidson, author of a new book titled The Logic of Freedom: Free Will, Human Nature, and the Rational Argument for a Genuinely Free World. This book is not something I would read to my 10 year…

Good morning, and happy Monday to you. If Monday isn’t happy for you, then maybe you have the wrong job. Just a thought 😉 At any rate, I just released two brand new episodes on the Energeia.LIVE podcast feed this past weekend. They both feature Orthodox Christian scholar Frederica Mathewes-Green. As you probably know if you…

I just read an interesting email from an online marketer I subscribe to. He was talking about the illusion of constantly working on one’s business, or job, or what have you. One of the people this person mentioned who preaches the need to work constantly is Gary Vaynerchuk. If you’re not familiar with “GaryVee” he’s…

Good morning my friends. I can’t recall ever using this email list to straight ask up for money. I always try to make things interesting, entertaining, and then tie it into a service or product I’m promoting. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do just about everything, and I believe the approach…

Have you ever watched a postgame interview where an NFL team got completely hosed by a late penalty, or non-penalty, that cost them the game? There’s always human error of course, but sometimes these penalties are so egregious, you can’t help but wonder if they’re intentionally helping out a certain team to win the game.…

When Sana and I lived in Vietnam, we lived in a community called “EcoPark.” Beautiful place, and we both loved it. The apartment building we lived in was one of four massive towers called Westbay, and as there’s probably around 1000 residents of each 30 story building, you can imagine the elevators are a pretty…

What if all this time what we thought of as “success” is really a massive failure? What if each failure contributed to overall success? Success and failure can be a bit deceiving when viewed on the surface. Kind of like the tip of the iceberg looks friendly enough – maybe even a bit beautiful when…

A few years back, 2021 I believe, while I was living in Vietnam with Sana, I met some of her coworkers for lunch at the nearby mall. We had “hot pot” (think boiling soup in front of you while you cook meat and veggies yourself) and all in all it was a great time. After…