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

Love this image of meditation and 7 chakras (energy centers of the body). Mindfulness, centered, focused, clarity, connected.  Also, some ni...

I loved this lesson in endurance from Naji Ali in the Wall Street Journal today.  Take it stroke by stroke. Don't worry about getting a...

So important to keep the mind centered. I tried something new in the pool to tread water using the minimum energy. At first, my body resiste...

Thought this was pretty smart.  To listen, you've got to shut your mouth and be quiet.  "Listen" and "Silent" have t...

I like this runner's shirt a lot.  It says: Courage is endurance for one moment more. Just when you feel that you cannot go on f...

I liked this saying from someone in the IDF.  Be "flexible in tactics, but stay fixed on the goals!" There are many ways to ...

I love this map by Heinrich Bunting, a German Protestant pastor and cartographer.  This beautiful artist and thoughtful map was publishe...

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...

Really liked this sign on my colleague's desk. It says: Start With Yes I remember an old boss who used to say: Don't make ...

So conducting large meetings is not often easy.  People have their own concepts as to where they'd like the discussion to go. Yes,...

So this is an interesting meeting facilitation technique.  Sometimes people get carried away in meetings either as  broken records,   sp...

I like this saying and wanted to share it: "The dream is free, but the hustle is sold separately." Yes, this is the home o...

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...

At this time of some major hurricanes hitting the USA (first Harvey, and now approaching IRMA and Jose)... I have been remembering from ...

So I have started watching VICE News and you should too.  It is on HBO and is superior to the other big news outlets in so many ways. ...

Do you ever feel like you can do no right? That whatever you do or choose, you are opening yourself up to criticism by others or more im...

So there is the work at work.  And then there is the behind the scenes people stuff that goes on. And anyone who has been around the b...

It's funny, when the way forward is uneven, broken, or fraught with danger, and someone just puts out a sign (and orange cone) warning...

OMG, this is completely dysfunctional and embarrassing.  Can we stop the fighting among ourselves--Democrats and Republicans, Judeo-Chr...

So this is an interesting new phenomenon with synagogue.  Usually, we like to go a little later so that basically we are there for abo...