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

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Luv is cool.  It's the answer.  What's the question? (Credit Photo: Dossy Blumenthal)

While many people may occasionally feel head over heels for something or someone, I liked this saying by Miska Ben-David: The head will make...

Shlomo Carlebach was a master of Jewish Nigunim (melodies). With his music he could literally move one's soul to reach for G-d Alm...

This was sort of a funny sign: "No Dumping" Dumping can refer to at last 3 different types of things and none of them are an...

We went to the art galleries in Rockville Town Center today.  They had this video called "Neighbor" by Kanat Akar.  It's ...

Some people are so cold and emotionally distant. They go around with a stone face.   No emotion seems to seep in or out.  The face d...

So parenting is not always an easy job.  But it is one full of love and helping your kids.  Sometimes, I remember listening to my kids...

I liked this categorization of three types of tools of persuasion developed by Aristotle:  - Ethos: Appeals to a sense of ethics, mor...

So you always hear about the techniques used when people are being tortured...one of them being have their nails ripped off. Ouch! So ...

Thought this was a really funny quote about getting your buttons pushed:  "Don't push my buttons without reading the manual....

So the Rabbi today spoke about thinking before you speak, and not letting your emotions overcome your logic.  He mentioned, for example,...

Feelings are one of those things that make us oh so human.  We feel love and hate, joy and sadness, hopeful and anxious, peaceful and...

"I know you hear me, but are you listening to me ?" That's something one of my teachers used to say to the class back in y...

It was interesting, I was reading about how humans have six universal emotions. These emotions are considered largely involuntary res...

Dr. Ben Bissell has a terrific presentation on Managing Change and Transitions . Basically Bissell explains that when we face Signifi...

There is a debate called the "Internet Paradox" about whether social media is actually connecting us or making us more feel ...

There are some cool articles in Mental Floss (March/April 2012) on laughter and in Harvard Business Review (January 2012) on happiness...

This video is funny and enjoyable to watch; only 20 million views on line...am I late to this one? Leadership lesson: some things are just...

Organizations are all interested in what sells —what’s hot and what’s not! Of course, as advertisers learned long ago, “sex sells.” Wh...