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Firefighting - The Financial Crisis and its Lessons (2019) - Book review, part 1

The 2008 Great Recession was the first major global crisis in my adult lifetime. I still remember standing in the lobby of the Budapest headquarter of the multinational company I was working for. The CEO (or CFO or whatever) was explaining to the crowd of maybe a hundred people that something bad had...

War of styles: Navy SEAL vs martial artist

Martial arts are such a rich and entertaining topic that having started pontificating, I find it hard to stop. However, the act is entertaining only as long as the pontificator is in the right, and one inevitably will reach the end of his/her comfort zone eventually.  Still, there are so many low-hanging...