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

About a decade ago, after the events of 9/11, there was a program called Total Information Awareness (TIA) run out the Defense Advance...

There is a funny joke that is timely for election season, and it goes something like this... "It was election time and the polit...

Another beautiful photo by Michelle Blumenthal The Jefferson Memorial and Tidal River Basin Washington, DC (2012)

This video is hilarious as the little girl acts out what we look and sound like at work.  She is actually so good, I think she would qua...

RIM, the maker of the Blackberry, continues to flounder, and many organizations are rightfully moving their mobility solutions to the ...

So this guy has a job where he is at the front of a line of people passing buckets of sh*t to the next guy in the line.  A stranger ...

This past week a self-professed Al Qaeda jihadist, trained in the militant camps of Pakistan and Afghanistan murdered in cold blood th...

In the Hunger Games, the storyline is of the common people being punished for rebelling against "The Capital" generations ag...

I love this evolving technology using bionics to help the paralyzed stand and walk again.  This technology for exoskeleton suits with mo...

I saw this brilliant piece in the Wall Street Journal (20 March 2012) about building relationships with sibling "rivals...

My daughter is quite the photographer--a great combination with her communications major.   I posted this photo from her because ...

A lot of colleagues tell me that they hate office politics , and for many it represents their one-way ticket to ongoing bickering, infig...

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

A few years ago, I saw the movie Taken (2008) about a 17-year old girl kidnapped in Paris and sold into prostitution. Fortunately, in ...

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...

This is my dream drink.  Dunkin' Donuts Mocha Iced Coffees. Two a day, yay! This town really does run on Dunkin'. Star...

There are some cool articles in Mental Floss (March/April 2012) on laughter and in Harvard Business Review (January 2012) on happiness...

We have been taught that the Internet, developed by the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), was designed ...

There is an article today in the Wall Street Journal (10-11 March 2012) about how an Anybot Robot attended a wedding party in Paris dre...

An article in CIO Magazine (1 March 2012) describes the term "CIO Squared" as "the combination of chief information offic...

I have a new article called "Leadership for Lasting Change." "Usually organizational turnaround don't happen by them...

A few years ago, researchers found that Dogs could actually identify people with cancer at a 99% accuracy rate by simply smelling human...

Trends help us to see where things are coming from and potentially where they are going. There is a Cisco Visual Networking Index (VN...

I had an opportunity to view a demo of a dashboarding product from Edge called AppBoard, and while this is not a vendor or product e...

I liked this explanation (not verbatim) by Dr. Jim Chen of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. - Data: This is an alpha...

I just love the creativity of this Star Wars-like animation video to explain how we communicate over the Internet (using the guidelines o...

This video from Monosol is a little hokey on the inspiring and teamwork pieces, but I think they are definitely on to something with thei...

The amount of data in the world is exploding and yet the belief in G-d is evaporating.   A review in the Wall Street Journal (22 Feb...

I had the opportunity to watch an absolutely brilliant movie called Aftershock (2010) about the 1976 Tangshan earthquake (7.8 on the ...

I took these photos today of a cross section of a shoe.  I was surprised that this was all there was to it.  So what costs $140??? A ...