How Much Technical Debt do You Have?
Parshat Noach 5780

You’re having dinner in middle of February, and your furnace blows. The house slowly starts getting colder, and you call the HVAC guy who tries to troubleshoot it over the phone. When nothing works, he promises to come right away,…

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Parshat Noach 5780

It’s all About Communication
Parshat Bereishit 5780

There is a time in every baby’s life when they are smart enough to want to communicate with the outside world, but not smart enough to communicate with the outside world. This creates enormously vexing situations. Lil’ baby Numzi wants…

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Parshat Bereishit 5780

Do You Have a Security Blanket?
Parshat Ha’azinu/Sukkot 5780

The end of 1918 and the beginning of 1919 was a pretty good time for most of the world. For four years, the Great War had ravaged the European continent, leading to the death of close to twenty million people,…

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Parshat Ha’azinu/Sukkot 5780

The Robots are Coming for Your Job!
Parshat Vayelech/ Yom Kippur 5780

It’s here. I knew it was coming, and I had been on the lookout for it for years, but when it finally showed up, it looked nothing like what I was expecting. What I’m talking about of course is the…

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Parshat Vayelech/ Yom Kippur 5780