Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Picture from active shooter training today.  Saw a great (and scary) video on RUN, HIDE, FIGHT (from  http://www.readyhoustontx.gov ) --...

So I received an email last night from the teacher of my Ulpan class.  She was passing along a message from a wonderful man in class let...

Thought this was a really good perspective on fear. "You have two options: F orget E verything A nd R un Or F ace E verything...

It was nice going to a local festival yesterday and seeing a table set up with brochures for the kids and families on Emergency Preparedne...

Thought this was really spot on. The knives get sharpened and readied.  At some point, they come flying out of nowhere.  Often, from...

So there was another collision of a U.S. Navy Destroyer. The Navy destroyer collided early today with an oil tanker off of Singapore.  ...

We spend $600 billion on defense and this is what we get? In the middle of the night our U.S. Navy DESTROYER crashes with a ginormous con...

Oops, so this is one for the books... The multi-billion dollar Raytheon-built military JLENS surveillance blimps are pictured above. ...

So our Navy is shrinking for real, but growing on the books. Steve Cohen writes in the Wall Street Journal  how the "U.S. Navy is s...

It's really hypocritical that on one hand we put innovation on a pedestal, but on the other hand, we tend to nix new ideas.  The...

Many organizations seek transformation. They are mired in paper even though we as a society have long moved to a digital age. They are orga...