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

So I learned that this is called a Van de Graaff Generator. It generates very high voltage electricity.  The guy setting it up asks me...

There is a very important article in the Wall Street Journal today on the link of loneliness to death.  Frightening loneliness statisti...

So it's been raining so much here in the DC area lately. The result is that the hot Summer July temperatures are down in the cool 70...

So I love that look on people's face when I say something that just startles them or takes them back a little.  The other day when I...

I thought this was really fascinating about how we interact with others. It's a theory by Martin Buber called the I-Thou relationshi...

Smart saying I heard today on time management: Early is on time. On time is late. Late is unacceptable. Having grown up in a very prec...

So I was talking to this nice gentleman. He was telling me that he lost his wife of over 27 years to cancer--this happened over 15 years...

So what a nice compliment... I'm talking with someone this week. They're new, and so I tried to be generally nice and ask abou...

So this was funny-weird at the dentist.  The dental hygienist comes in and does the cleaning. Ultrasonic cleaner, scraping, polishing,...

I thought this was a good photo to depict the importance of keeping perspective in life. It is easy for any of us to "get bent out o...

So oddly, one thing that many people these days find really hard to do is STOP AND THINK. What do I mean? Be alone, do nothing, and ju...

So I saw this game called Taboo when doing the grocery shopping today.  (This one is the Jewish edition.) Having never played this bef...