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

My daughter sent me this amazing picture portraying how we can "think outside the box."  How many of us would ever have en...

One fundamental framework that I was always really impressed with and found basically true to life was Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs...

There was a fascinating article in the New York Times (17 June 2012) called: " A data giant is Mapping and Sharing the Consumer G...

The New Yorker (9 July 2012) has an article on TED Talks.  TED stands for Technology/Entertainment/Design and is a conference venue f...

Judge David Young of Court TV has a frequent saying that "Denial is not a river in Egypt." When it comes to Research In Mot...

T here is a very moving article in Commentary Magazine (22 May 2012) called " IOC: Been There, Done That, On Munich ." ...

The best article I have seen on the subject of Electronic Health Records (EHR) was in Bloomberg BusinessWeek (21 June 2012) called ...

Pebble is coming out with a Smartwatch that connects via wireless Bluetooth to either iPhone or Android devices. It can be used for get...

Woke up this morning to the elevator being out of service--again (and this was the sign that was up)! Thank G-d our automobiles and airpla...

This 9-year old kid--Tom Spicer--from Australia is quite simply amazing. Hard to believe this is real--but I understand that it is! Th...

The Huffington Post (28 June 2012) ran an article this weekend called " Land of the Free, Home of the Unprepared ." This at a...

This is an out-of-this-world topic that I don't think I have written about before...ALIENS--no seriously!  MSNBC ran an intervi...

This is an amazing video that has won 15 awards and was translated into 27 languages.  It is an animation film and moves a little slowly...

I was most impressed at the graduation of my daughter from Tech Camp today. She became fairly proficient with Dreamweaver, Flash, P...

Checks and balances in government is a great thing.  Our founding fathers were brillant in building it into the constitution to place ...

In the morning, I like to stop at the food court for some coffee (iced, not hot).  This week, while heading down the stairs to the coffe...

Dark Reading (21 June 2012) came out with security news of a AutoCAD Worm called ACAD/Medre.A that targets design documents. I als...

In election season, there is a lot of confusing messaging and as citizens, we are left trying to figure out where to go with our country...

This was a strange mural on Collins Avenue in Miami.  The mural was on what looked like a three story building. Sandwiched between...

A biological attack on the United States is a most frightening prospect and one that could present an existential threat to us.  ...

Recently, I inspired by an award-winning documentary that I watched on Netflix called Praying With Lior (2007). The movie is about the d...

This is a photo I took at Harpers Ferry. There was a train coming by pretty fast, and on the flatbeds were what seemed like a endless...

The Washington D.C. area Metro has been so bad this week... Fires, delays, overcrowding, doors not closing, people screaming, trains...

So I had booked up on the airline to go to the Florida Keys. You have to go to Miami first and switch flights—it’s a two-legged...

There is a guy who stands on the corner in the 90+ degree heat here every day trying to sell his book.  Calling out to passer-bys, ...

A new article by Andy Blumenthal on cyber security and cloud computing in Public CIO Magazine (June 2012) called Securing Cloud Data M...

Yesterday, I go into a store with my daughter to shop for a new iPhone case. A clean-cut kid--maybe 13 years old--comes out from b...