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

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Preventing a Future October 7 ." First and foremost, we need more and b...

Wanted to share these beautiful lights from around Washington, D.C.  They are all sort of magnificent! But even w...

So here's a resolution for all of us for 2017... How about this year be the year of the customer! - Where we care more about doing ...

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

What beauties these purple flowers are? Tall on the thin green stem.  And then ballooning and budding out into these futuristic spheri...

So someone said something interesting to me yesterday. They were going off about this and that problem in the world.  Then seemingly e...

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 ...

This is pretty in pink, amazing.  Look closely at this cat. The cat is made of full sticks of Crayola Crayons (literally). The crayo...

"Hello Irrelevant. My name is Andy." The photo above was taken today near a prominent university in Washington, D.C.  When o...

Lately, with the Ebola outbreak, primarily in Africa, but unfortunately also spreading here into the U.S., we are hearing refrains fro...

You've experienced it firsthand, innovation is slowing down (and yes, it's quite disappointing!).   Do you feel compelled to...

In IT circles, IV&V generally refers to Independent Verification and Validation, but for CIOs another important definition for leading...

I like this photo..."I don't know what we're yelling about!!" On one hand, some people may yell out of frustration or ...

Great piece in the Wall Street Journal today on getting and giving advice.  This was a funny article about how most advice comes not fr...

For a long time, I've heard of "The movers and shakers" as the ones who get things done.  But I think there is another and...

Jeff Bezos of Amazon is one very smart guy and when he announces that he is interested in drones delivering your next online order that ma...

G-d, I remember as a kid in school having to memorize everything for every class--that was the humdrum life for a schoolchild. Vocabular...

A lot of people think that the McKinsey's of this world are the business geniuses.  You hire McKinsey, Bain, or The Boston Consultin...

Two more articles, this time in Fast Company (Sept 2013) are pointing to the unhappiness of people and the desire to change things. The ...