FreshBooks is a bookkeeping software, which is used by a ton of the start-ups I advise and many of the contractors I work with. This podcast is brought to you by FreshBooks. If you only have 5 minutes and are rushed for time, check out this short segment about the surprising psychological effects of war. There are gems within, including hilarious stories, surprising statistics, and tear-jerking epiphanies. I urge you to bite your lip, if need be, and listen to the entire episode. Some of the topics will no doubt offend many of you, and this is a good thing. In this episode, we cover rites of passage (and their importance), warfare, the art of great non-fiction writing, PTSD, evolutionary biology, and much more. Junger has since produced and directed three additional documentaries about war and its aftermath.

soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, is widely considered to have broken new ground in war reporting. “Restrepo,” which chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film “Restrepo,” a feature-length documentary (co-directed with Tim Hetherington), was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award.

My podcast guest is Sebastian Junger ( the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, War, and Tribe. If you want a better understanding of warriors, tribal societies, human nature, and what we can learn from it all, this is for you. “Who would you die for? What ideas would you die for?” – Sebastian Junger The point of journalism isn’t to make everything better it’s to give people accurate information about how things are.” – Sebastian Junger There are facts and truths that feel regressive, but that doesn’t matter. “The point of journalism is to tell the truth.

War by Sebastian Junger