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

With gratitude to my beautiful daughter, Minna Blumenthal, for sharing this song by Idan Raichel with me.  Shabbat Shalom!

Happy Friday everyone! Yesterday, someone gave me a couple of these bright yellow smileys--one on the back of each of my hands.  I was...

So we all know these type of people that love to criticize and bully.   They are the critics in chief.  You have to wonder what thei...

So this was amazing.  I was working with someone for a number of weeks/months.  All of a sudden, I got a complete blow off email from th...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has come up with a Reconfigurable Wheel Track (RWT).  The tires can switc...

Please see my new article in Times of Israel .  As much as we have to remember the horrors of the Holocaust and how so-called, human bei...

So I used to hear from my wife about when she was young and went to the bungalow colony in the Catskill Mountains. And today, I heard fr...

So I love that look on people's face when I say something that just startles them or takes them back a little.  The other day when I...

So someone I know came over to this country and literally has to work 7 days a week for months at a time! They don't want or need to...

So I never saw square trees until I visited Palm Beach, Florida.  What's the saying: "It's hip to be squa...

What a brilliant picture of "Anxiety" by a child in Montgomery County, Maryland.  Notice the great big letters--and all in cap...

So we bought a new big screen television.  That's exciting, right? We brought it home from Costco.  And we gave our prior model ...

See my new article in the Times of Israel. " Please Don't Burn Israel Anymore " From Incendiary kites to flaming ballo...

What a beautiful Father's Day card from my daughter.  Also, the message she wrote to me inside was so thoughtful and mature.  It i...

I haven't played Risk in years.  But my daughter and her husband came for Shabbat, and we sat down and had a great game.  We distr...

I saw this sign posted at an organization's office.  I thought it was a nice way to motivate people working there.  "What peo...

So check out this sleek garbage for bottles and cans.  Like many of these, it has a small opening hole at the top to convey that only bo...

So this was absolutely amazing today.  We had a meeting and someone brought in a bag of "prizes" as an icebreaker. Low and ...

So we recently took on a new function at work. With that came a new group of employees. Today, we had a wonderful breakfast as a meet ...

As Apple approaches the unbelievable $1 trillion mark in market value, I am going the contrarian.  Historically, I love Apple products--...

So the Capitals won the Stanley Cup.  Go DC! This little figurine made a debut on the counter of the concierge late last week for us to ...

So I want you to know that there is a very thin line between fantasy and reality.  There are those who want you to not only question real...

So happy Friday funday.  We work hard during the week, right. Today in the office, we replaced some old metal clunker garbage cans wit...

So we stopped in this gallery in Palm Beach. And there lay this piece of "art". Well, I'm not sure--is this really ar...

So earlier in the week, I had a great opportunity to visit the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR).  It was fascinating to see the...

So I can't believe that Kate Spade (55) committed suicide -- Hanging.  What an amazing fashion designer--so much to live for! Famo...

What an amazing birthday gift from my beautiful kids.  A model of the awesome Merkava IV battle tank from Israel.  They know how much ...

L-rd, Bless your loving children.  And do swift justice to the wicked that seek their destruction.  Bless those that stand guard at yo...

So Agile development is great for iteratively working closely with customers to develop and refine information systems that are useful t...