Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

The joys of learning. Sitting and reading. Mental calisthenics. It takes discipline.  Got to work those neurons!  ;-) (Credit Photo: Michell...

Interesting message on this car window: Imagine all the wonderful things that will never happen if you do not do them. You've got ...

I like the saying on this guys knapsack: Discipline equals freedom. The opposite is true too: From the violent riots across the coun...

Just a self-reflection today... Important to me.  It's about who I thought I was and... Who I became.  Truly, I went full circ...

So Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar is a 25-hour day of repentance, prayer, and fasting.  This last Yom Kippur, someon...

This was so funny coming across this big bright red piggy bank in a thrift store.  What a blast from the past! I remember having one o...

So I'm hearing two opposing themes about the proposed federal budget cuts : 1) It's horrible because we are cutting into the bon...

So at the table next to us this morning at breakfast was a mean looking lady and a fidgety young child.  The lady as we found out ove...

I took this photo of this guys' cool Catch-22 bag on the Metro in Washington, D.C. yesterday.  Catch-22 was made famous in the book ...

Whether though endless work, family activities, exercise, computer time, or whatever, people have a hard time just stopping to think.  A...

Christopher Mims in the Wall Street Journal  makes the case for letting employees go rogue with IT purchases. It's cheaper, it...

A colleague told me a good saying from the Navy Seals.  "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast." The idea is that when we slow ...

My daughter, Rebecca and I watched an amazing sight yesterday. We sat on the beach before sunset to enjoy the ocean and sand without the...

Good book review in the Wall Street Journal on America's Fiscal Constitution by Bill White. The main idea is that we have gone from...

So we took my daughter, Rebecca, and a friend indoor rock climbing and it was awesome! Each of them climbed three walls of increasing di...

So yesterday, I was on one of the hikes of my life. After a certain period of time, I said that we had had better head back, leaving ...

This 9-year old kid--Tom Spicer--from Australia is quite simply amazing. Hard to believe this is real--but I understand that it is! Th...

I.O.U.S.A . (2008) is the best explanation of our nation's financial problems and the deep severity of these that I have ev...

This is an amazing photo by my daughter, Michelle Blumenthal.  This deer just tried to jump a fence, but got impaled right through i...

I don't know if you've seen this--it's pretty popular, but I just really liked it: “Beware of your thoughts, they become...