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

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  So I have been sick the last 9 days, and don't really know what it is (bad cold, flu, or Covid).  But I am hearing that Covid is spira...

Wow, the chocolate and poppy pastry rolls look pretty awesome.  Salivating to take a serious bite.  But don't advise for that be...

What will restarting the economy after Coronavirus look like? Well Israel has a well-thought-out  4 Phase Plan  (pending approval) and I...

Latest Coronavirus news reported by  Reuters  from South Korea... Virus appears to be  "reactivated"  after person is already c...

So I was in an Agile and Scrum Management class yesterday.  Always looking for new best practices and efficiencies for what we are doi...

Education is fundamental to learning, development and preparation for career and life.  We've always believed that if you invest in...

As educators are pushed to improve students' test scores, sometimes they run afoul. In Atlanta, 8 former public school educators w...

Technology is not like buying a time share, thank G-d.  We examine the costs and the benefits, and it either works and provides us a tan...

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

We've all drunk the Kool-Aid and believe in using the cloud. And with almost 1 million active apps alone in the Apple Store it is n...

The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating interview today with Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of a new company that has rethought how we d...

Okay, it takes a big man to admit when he's wrong. Reference my blog " How Apple Is Losing Its Fan " dated August 10, 2013...

Regularly in IT, we field new technologies and systems. Often, we don't pay enough attention to the details of change management a...

I don’t know about you, but I have always been a pretty big believer that you get what you pay for. That is until everything Internet ca...

In defense, it is a well-known principle that you determine your critical infrastructure, and then harden those defenses—to protect it. T...

There is a fascinating article in Wired (Oct. 2009) on a Doomsday Machine called “the Perimeter System” created by the Soviets. If anyone ...

In enterprise architecture, we develop IT targets and plans for the organization, but these are usually not tested in any meaningful or sign...

We’ve been hearing for years about our poor elementary and high school educational system in this country. For years, test scores have trail...

I came across some interesting lessons learned on rolling out new technology (from the perspective of franchisers/franchisees) that apply n...