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

I love the direction DARPA is going in with robotic exoskeletons for our warfighters.  Helping soldiers perform their jobs easier,...

Classic enterprise architecture is figuring out how to move from the current/as-is state to the target/to-be state.  Generally, anything...

This show, The Walking Dead , is just awesome. It's the end of the world... With the the few battling to survive. The scary fulfi...

This was a sign in Starbucks in Gaithersburg, MD that got my attention. It was different--it wasn't advertising for a local garage s...

As the hour approaches for a punishing U.S. attack on Syria, here are some thought on why or why not to do it: Reasons Not To Attack ...

Why do people laugh and feel pleasure at other people's pain and misfortune? The Wall Street Journal (20 August 2013) reviews the b...

Passing a building and looking up at the terraces, how could you not notice this giant dude? Larger than life and looking like he is hol...

Injustice, Injustice does Montana Judge Todd Baugh pursue.  G-d, hope you are listening... BBC reported about this bogus Judge Baugh ...

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

My dad told me this joke over the weekend. It's about the Rabbi who asked the little boy in school...  "WHERE do you find G...

I first saw an advertisement for this music group near George Washington University.  I was taken by their name: PLS DNT STP (i.e. Please...

Soon we will end the weekend and move into the next workweek. As a kid, I remember people calling it "Blue Monday"--presumably...

I learned a lot about Drone Warfare reading and thinking about "The Killing Machines" in The Atlantic by David Bowden.  The b...

Steve Ballmer, one of the forefathers of Microsoft (with a career spanning 3 decades there) and its CEO since 2000, is finally retiring. ...

So the military got it right when they teach their cadets to stand tall "at attention." "Chin up, chest out, shoulders ba...

I took this photo this week in downtown Washington, D.C. A U.S. Postal Service priority mail sticker stuck onto a pole with a pictu...

This is a photo I took in the Metro in Washington D.C.  It is an advertisement for a cessation of hostilities in Syria where estimates a...

Mashable  (17 August 2013) has some good advice for job seekers--show you mean business and here's how to do it: 1) Integrity --This...

Good video from The Atlantic on automation and the concern about Robots taking our jobs. From the 1800's, when "the Luddites,...

To combat the recession of 2007, the Federal Reserve initiated an aggressive policy of Quantitative Easing--purchasing federal debt en ma...

Peggy Noonan hit it right on the head in today's Wall Street Journal . The fear of giving up privacy, she said, is of a "massiv...

This is not the New York I remember (dirty, crowded, dangerous--ugh!).  My daughter went on a Shabbaton to the Big Apple. They put her...

Another candidate for picture of the week.  This guy is wearing "tape measure" suspenders.  Oh, how fashionable!  While th...

My wife took this photo today at The Drupal for Government Conference at NIH. The man in the photo was not only participating in the con...

Okay, it takes a big man to admit when he's wrong. Reference my blog " How Apple Is Losing Its Fan " dated August 10, 2013...

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

Two more articles, this time in Fast Company (Sept 2013) are pointing to the unhappiness of people and the desire to change things. The ...

Some people are averse to change and to technology--and then there is Gary Sernovitz.  This guy in the Wall Street Journal today boasts...