Scholar
A classic per wall, read slowly, argued with, and written about in your own hand.
The classic on this wall
The Richest Man in Babylon — the laws of gold, kept at the table
Arkad's first law is a family law before it is a money law: a part of all you earn is yours to keep. A tenth, taken off the top, before anyone else is paid — and that tenth is the seed of the family's future. On this wall the book is read aloud at the table, so the children learn the laws of gold the way they learn their own names: keep a tenth, make the gold breed, guard it from loss, make the home a profitable investment, insure a future income, increase the ability to earn.
FamilyCEO is not only dinners and birthdays — it is building a legacy that is actually fun and actually funded. The purse fattened first means the daughter's first business and the grandson's apprenticeship are an inheritance, not a hope. That is what the guild means by trade passed down a line.
Today's charge
One person in your line touched today — on purpose, not in passing.
- Call Mom
- Family dinner, phones down
- Game night
- Write to a grandchild
The Akademy · A Classic Per Wall
Living the classics, not studying them
The old education did not separate the book from the road. A person read Homer and then crossed water; read Plato and then governed something small. Every wall of the Octagon carries a classic, and the classic is lived — so that a woman is being schooled, traveling, mastering a trade and making things with her hands all at once.
Traveler
The road is the classroom. Every wall has a literal walk, a place, a mile.
Master
A trade you are answerable for — vouched for by the guild, priced honestly.
Artisan
Something made with your hands each week. Nothing is finished until it exists.
Wall 1 · VisionCEO
EnterHinds' Feet on High Places · The Pilgrim's Progress
Hannah Hurnard · John Bunyan
Much-Afraid climbs with hinds' feet and is given a stone at every hard place.
Wall 2 · HealerCEO
EnterThe Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mary Lennox: sour and sallow until she puts her hands in the earth — and is healed by what she heals.
Wall 3 · RichCEO
EnterThe Greatest Salesman in the World
Og Mandino
The same ten scrolls in a woman's voice — her work becomes her walk.
Wall 4 · PlanCEO
EnterThe Princess and the Pea
Hans Christian Andersen
She finds the pea every day — the small friction that proves the royal nerve.
Wall 5 · ScholarCEO
EnterThe Republic
Plato
The examined life run inside a real household — justice at the scale of a home.
Wall 6 · NatureCEO · OutdoorCEO
EnterOn the Nature of the Gods
Cicero
The heavens declare an order — she learns to see design outdoors and bring it home to her own house.
Wall 7 · FamilyCEO
EnterThe Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason
The same laws in her voice: the purse fattened first, so the family's future is an inheritance, not a hope.
Wall 8 · MissionCEO
EnterThe Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Fatima of the oasis: the same story told from the woman he finally meets.
The reading list is the curriculum of IQUI Akademy — one classic per wall, one wall per day of the eight, and your own hand writing the notes.