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

So I found this book in an IT colleague's office.  It's called: "The Unofficial I Hate Computer Book". It was writ...

So software versioning is supposed to be a way to manage change control.  However, many vendors have gone out of control with versioning...

Christopher Mims' article in the Wall Street Journal today on why big companies get disrupted by others doesn't make a lot of se...

So here's the monitor in the "modern" and beautiful Fort Lauderdale International airport.  Can you see the number of elec...

Not sure about this video on the SimpleHuman Toilet Brush On one hand, it's funny to have such a serious video lauding the functional...

I took this photo of this Design logo on the side of a bag this guy was carrying.  It is from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum...

Really like what I read yesterday... Amazon is expanding from selling goods to also adding services. Amazon is the #1 stop for just a...

The health club I’ve been going to has this thingamajig machine by the locker room. A what? That’s right--first no idea what it is, ...

Washington D.C. Metro Emergency Instructions Ugh, long and boring. How 'bout this instead: - Don't Freak Out - Don't Get O...

No reason for Sir/Madam technology here to feel down in the dumps. Yes, we love you technology. And not just sometimes, but alway...

So data is like clouds... Clouds want to be free roaming the wild blue skies similar to how data wants to be searchable, accessible, u...

So the new Apple Watch promises to monitor our every virtual health status as technology and person blend to become one.   However, th...

Please see my new article here in Public CIO Magazine on how we can learn from the technology industry to improve our nation's govern...

I love Razer's Project Christine - a completely modular PC.  There is a stand and you simply attach the components you want: Central...

The Wall Street Journal asks "Is it Time for Smartwatches?" With the arrival of the first generation of smartwatches--Samsung...

So my approach to enterprise architecture, product design, and customer service, as many of you know, is plan and simple, User-centric! ...

Google, which touts itself as the one that "organize[s] the world's information and make[s] it universally accessible and usable,...

InformationWeek  asks "Will IT Departments Disappear By 2020?" This question comes from Forrester Research which sees the comm...

Apple which is under competitive pressure to come up with something new—since Steve Jobs, their chief and master innovator passe...

Two interesting recent articles discuss the importance of building in simplicity to product design to make things more useful to people. ...