These short trailers illustrate the intense stress of the undercover operator. Dr. Chris Macedonia, who was the DARPA Program Manager for Accelerated Learning, told me something after my presentation that inspires me to this day: “Marcus, where I sit, I see all...
Month: September 2020
The Beauty of Aurora: Part 2
The concert with the Bergen Philharmonic Symphony I posted here showcases one facet of this brilliant young Norwegian singer-songwriter's gift. Here's two more facets. The first highlights her lyrics and writing ability. The second is a live performance in an...
A Great Review and FREE BOOK FRIDAY
Cheah Kit Sun is Singapore's first Hugo and Dragon nominated author. He's also a fine professional reviewer who wrote a great review of my REVENGERS series here I don't normally read reviews. I find them distracting. I prefer to focus on writing the best...
Coming Soon: A Chat With Dr. Chris Berka, CEO of Advanced Brain Monitoring
I received a delightful invitation today from Dr. Chris Berka, who read my post NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND THE REAL FIGHT. We're coordinating a discussion ABM will record and post on their social medias about how her work has inspired, influenced and reinforced my own...
Neurophysiology and The Real Fight
Geoff Thompson is one of the founders of reality-based self defense. Geoff, and my friends Dennis Martin and John Brawn, were the reasons I went to the UK in the 90s to test neural-based training on the street. If you want to see how training works in a street...
Yoshitoshi and the Faery Queen
Less Is More
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential —- Bruce Lee When I’m asked to prove that accelerated learning combined with stress inoculation holds up in the real world, I never cite studies and I rarely mention all the lives saved by my...
Salt, Great Food, and Revenge Fiction
In my ongoing series THE REVENGERS, the two protagonists are retired Marine Master Gunnery Sergeants from Force Recon, with a few side gigs for the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity. In their EQUALIZER like quest to balance the scales of justice by ridding the world...
Thought For The Day
FAUDA
For a fine example of superior performance under extraordinary stress, check out FAUDA on Netflix. It fictionalizes the operations of the mistavrim, the deep cover counter-terror units of the Israeli Defense Force. Similar to the "pseudo ops" of the SAS in Malaya,...