It’s my last of 12 posts and I have a topic I have been thinking about since the first one. It has to do with growth. Personal growth, professional growth, speed of growth, impacts of growth… basically, how growth or progress affects us, our families, businesses, society and the world. Undeniably, we live in crazy […]
A Sucker For Advertising Since Always
When I was a little boy, I have very clear memories of going to my grandparents house and they had this terrifying E.T. figurine. As an adult, I wish I had it, but it was creepy as hell. It’s arms moved, its finger lit up, and I think even its chest did. Fingers moved too. […]
Lessons on Leadership, Leading, and Inspiring Others
One of the perks of my job is a unique program the company launched. It’s a mentorship program, where some of the more senior executives in the company volunteer to mentor more junior managers (me). I was fortunate enough that someone I have a great deal of respect for and has an abundance of experience, volunteered […]
Even Better Than Human
Years ago (probably close to 10), I remember hearing about The Singularity and sort of laughing it off as a joke, maybe an eventual possibility, but science fiction that humanity can’t fall into, because surely we are responsible enough not to let that sort of thing happen. Humanity is Awesomely Complex Really, we are these […]
Emoji, The Great Millennial Contribution
My wife and I just had a baby. A baby boy. He is adorable, not allowing us any real sleep, but he is cute, so there is that. Many new responsibilities come along with a new baby, one of which is the baby naming. As a religious Jew, it is traditional to wait to name the baby […]
The Power of Habits and the Crucial Time to Form Them
We humans get used to things a certain way, get stuck in our ways, and changing our actions and views on things is really hard. We are stubborn creatures. We get stuck in routine, the way we see things, and despite there being “better” or “more efficient” ways of doing something, we fight it. Why? […]
“Fakebooking” at its finest
Why do we feel the need to share? Well, maybe not we but me. I speak for myself. Why do I feel the need to share with others? Social media hits us in a complicated way where we now have the means to share something important in our life with hundreds or even thousands of people with the […]