In early 2014 I was invited by Seth Godin to participate in a new website project called HugDug by contributing book reviews. I decided to write about my favorite books, but submitted just four reviews before HugDug, alas, closed down at the end of the summer, just...
I don’t generally repost other people’s writings. Today is an exception. This morning, I thought about this speech while I was making our bed after breakfast. (That will make sense as you read on.) After first reading it more than a year ago on SOFREP, my friend...
Last Wednesday was my birthday, and the universe gave me a present. To tell you how it happened, I need to briefly walk you through the day. When my wife and I woke up, the novel I’m reading was on my mind. It’s Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson, who is my favorite...
John Zinn was a teammate of Brandon’s in SEAL Team Three. They were both California surfers with a love of entrepreneurialism, and they hit it off. After getting out of the service, John did an incredibly dangerous stint in Iraq as contract security early in the war,...
Matt Axelson was one of Brandon’s personal students in the SEAL sniper course that Brandon and his BUD/S teammate Eric Davis were managing in 2004. “Axe” was one of his finest students. Not long after graduation, he took part in the fateful mission immortalized in the...
This week, since there are seven days until the release of our new book Among Heroes and there are eight heroes we write about in the book, I thought I would release one excerpt per day: one for each hero. Today’s excerpt is about Dave Scott, who was with Brandon when...
