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

Space Force as another full branch of the military is the right thing to do! The things that get focused on, get accomplished.  Space ...

Thought these artist renderings of the Trappist-1 Star were awesome.  NASA discovered this star and 7 Earth-size planets around it...

Just wanted to share this beautiful Fall scene in Maryland. While we are about to embark on a major infrastructure spending spree to mak...

So invariably you hear these days from those that dislike one or the other candidate running for President, that if he/she wins, they are ...

So in today's New York Times Sunday Review, David Rieff provides some insights on the state of terrorism  that we are living with.  ...

In just the last few days and weeks, I have been astonished at the progress already being made towards the important technology advanceme...

As we live day-to-day in near endless and escalating cycles of hate, discrimination and violence along national, religious, racial, gende...

Andy Blumenthal talks about three technology imperatives for 2016. 1) Medical technology 2) Counter-terrorism technology 3) Space tech...

Just wanted to share this great site called Disability Blog  where people tell about their experiences of being disabled and how they have...

What an astute comic this is about change.  "Who wants change?"  Everyone raises their hands enthusiastically. "Who wan...

A sincere congratulations to the European Union for the epic landing of a probe from the Rosetta spacecraft--the first such landing on a c...

This is a disturbing 2-hour documentary called Zeitgeist (2007) by filmmaker Peter Joseph.  The first few minutes are a little weird so ...

What can be more thrilling than the promise of space exploration and the virtually limitless possibilities that it holds.  Since the...

There continues to be a significant shortfall in our cyber security capabilities, and this is something that needs our determined efforts to...

In the organization, you can’t really do anything without management commitment and a certain degree of consensus . In fact, management comm...

There are all sorts of theories about what motivates people. The two most popular are Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Hertzberg’s Theory o...

Should the CIO focus on day-to-day operational issues or on IT strategic planning and governance issues? From my experience many are focus...

Here is an interesting list of 10 obstacles to the enterprise architecture from a colleague and friend, Andy Wasser, Associate Dean, Carnegi...

Requirements management is critical to developing enterprise architecture. Without identifying, understanding, and rationalizing the organiz...