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

Our education system continues to suffer as we rank somewhere between 17th and 20th globally.  This means that our economy will ass...

Fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal today on China's "Left Behind Kids." While we hear about China as the risi...

We are here today to remember and honor my mother, Gerda Blumenthal, who passed away on Monday.   My mother was my personal heroine, ...

It is the first and foremost duty of every nation to protect its people and safeguard the values upon which it stands. The...

Day #3 of the Federal Government Shutdown. I am reminded on the streets of D.C. that there are many others hurting and in need.  Pictu...

This past week in the office we had an etiquette offense.  Someone had some lunch that was smell-eeeee! The whole suite was reeking fr...

It was unexpected that the day after I blogged about a number of change organizations attracting attention in our society, particularly fr...

The Atlantic (2 June 2013) asks why do we even need a government these days--why not just have a virtual one--where you just "buy...

An article in Fast Company (1 April 2013) by Chip and Dan Heath tells us to use the 10/10/10 rule for making tough decisions. That is t...

One man's trash is another man's treasure--funny, interesting, weird, how does it make you feel? This car, aside from the m...

The autocomplete feature in search engines can tell us a lot about what people are thinking and asking about. According to the N...

With so much of U.S. manufacturing activity going abroad, it is almost hard to believe that there is still a store in Elma, N.Y. called “...

Waiting for the train this morning--on the platform, there is a blind woman. The train pulls up, and I help the blind lady to the tra...

Senator Chuck Grassley posted a video of the Acting Director of the ATF sternly warning employees that "if you don't find the ...

When Greg Smith published his editorial in the New York Times (14 March 2012) on the alleged debased culture and greedy exploits at Go...

This is a stirring video with the Prayer for Israel.  From the ashes of the millions murdered in the Holocaust to the founding of the de...

For anyone who has ever stayed at the Four Seasons, you know it is an incredible hotel. Customer service reins supreme and that'...