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

Excellent poem by Dorothy Nolte: What children experience at home is what they learn to become.  Sure people can change their thinking and a...

Finishing Natan Sharansky's book Fear No Evil .  And I rarely write twice on a book or movie, but this was so impactful.  First on...

A colleague was telling me a while back about a dysfunctional organization they were in and how it made them feel...well, dysfunctional.  ...

What an awesome living room coffee table.  Superhero effects.  Big BOOM! With explosive rays and cloud formations. This is a defin...

I loved this explanation of the Book of Job by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz. Why do bad things happen to good people? G-d answers by showing...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called, " Never Alone or Meaningless ." We are never alone, because G-d is a...

So I had the opportunity to sit in on a colleague teaching a class in Performance Improvement.  One tool that I really liked from th...

I liked this Hebrew sign that says (translated): When the end is good, all is good.  Or as we commonly say: All's well that end...

A colleague told me something interesting about what it feels like at the top. He said: The 360 degree view is good, but it get's ...

A friend told me something interesting about anxiety and depression... Depression is anxiety turned inward.  When people feel anxious...

So I had an interesting conversation with a colleague, and they tell me their philosophy about worry, as follows: Worrying is sufferin...

So I learned this new phrase today: "Anus Protectus" It's what it sounds like. It when you communicate (or do) somethi...

So if you're in customer service... The answer is easy.  It's always got to be YES.  - Any less is a big No-No! The custom...

So sitting in synagogue today, my friend Jacob said something very interesting to me. He was talking about some very wealthy people wi...

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. ...

I saw this sign hanging prominently in a large local Baltimore hospital here (and it comes from the Talmud):  "He who saves one lif...

There is definitely something to be said for shock value.  When you do or say something that is S~H~O~C~K~I~N~G. And it jolts the othe...

This is a really good quote by Jay Danzie: "Your smile is your logo , your personality is your business card , how you leave others...

President-elect Trump is a Twitter genius! At 70-years old, he has managed to use a millennial social media tool to take on the world, an...

Some people have a negative perception of government workers ("govies").   They think that it's just a cushy job with a lo...