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

So I purchase some nutrition bars from a prominent online store.  If you click on 2 boxes (12 bars each), they charge you $30.  But if...

Thought this was a pretty good display with the Three Bears for holiday donations for Children's National Hospital.  While it gets yo...

I am marveling at the Genius of Amazon and Jeff Bezos but also concerned about their future direction.  Traditionally, they have inves...

Amazon has upended so many industries--and you can basically buy almost anything there. And yes, what you can't buy today, you wi...

So we are utterly and helplessly dependent on our smartphones and mobile communications. If our enemies strike our communications networ...

So here we go again, we cut off the hand (and arm) despite the face. We are recklessly giving up control of the Internet, specifically o...

I took this photo a few weeks ago on the streets in Washington, D.C. This was a huge box from eBay coming to someone. In my bui...

So I ordered a pair of swim fins to replace a pair that recently ripped in the pool.  I went online and ordered a brand NEW pair.  A f...

So we are almost all settled in our new place (now about 2 1/2 months)... And in the kitchen, I am re-organizing one of the top cabinets...

Interesting... Bloomberg Businessweek ran a special anniversary issue with a countdown of the 85 most disruptive ideas (in the last 85...

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

So I bought a really comfy chair--everyone wants one of these.  (Note: Pictured here is not the actual chair or store from my story ...

I loved the article in the Wall Street Journal By Andy Kessler.  Kessler's point is that technology is all about convenience.  ...

Coming to work this week, I saw a penny on the ground...then another...and another. I saw people passing the money, and instead of picki...

So I was amazed at the depths to which Sears will go to try to save their horrible brand.  The Wall Street Journal (21 July 2013) descr...

According to Charles Kenny in  Bloomberg BusinessWee k (20 June 2013), the Internet is quite a big disappointment--because it "failed...

I've never seen the great allure of Walmart.  Actually before I moved from NYC to the DC area more than a decade ago, I had never e...

So what happens in only 1 minute on the Internet--this cool magazine Ideas and Discoveries (October 2012) provides some amazing example...

What a great question--what's the Internet or your Smartphone worth to you?  Most people seems to say they wouldn't give these ...

You’re on the Internet doing your business, but who is at the other end and how do you know that you can trust them? That is what so call...