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AI is rapidly expanding what organizations can do. But leadership has never been defined by capability alone. In moments of rapid change, the most important question is not what is possible, but what is appropriate.

One of the shifts…

Every year at the Seder, we sing Dayenu.

It would have been enough.

A strange idea, if you really think about it.

Enough? After each step? Before the story is complete?

Because the reality is, we never stop at “enough.” We keep building,…

On May 31, 2023, inside the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, a dozen banks and their technology partners watched as the State of Israel minted its first digital government bond. The bond was a dummy — no real money changed hands — but the…

Imagine that you are shut up inside your room.  The forces of death rage outside, as you huddle together with your family and friends.  Today this imaginative exercise requires no imagination at all.  But I am not thinking right now of Tel…

The story of Noelia Castillo Ramos from Spain is deeply disturbing—but not for the reasons that the headlines and the media suggest. The real issue is not what happened at the end of her life. The real issue is everything that happened…

The Passover Hagaddah has a section where the question is asked regarding why the Seder is held at night.
It is derived from the extra word “כל” meaning “all.” The reference was that the exodus from Egypt was to be mentioned, “all…

When we raise the matzah at the Seder table, we are tuning into two contradictory experiences.

First, we encounter the matzah as the “bread of affliction,” as we attest at the opening of the Haggadah. This is the meager ration of…

India’s experience with Left-Wing Extremism offers a broader lesson: conflicts like these don’t end through force alone.

For decades, Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) has been one of India’s most stubborn internal security challenges. But it…

There is something about the atmosphere in Costa Rica that makes you feel like things just happen on their own. The “Pura Vida,” the waves of Puerto Viejo, the jungle growing at its own pace – everything projects a kind of natural flow…

(This post is a summary of https://rdiamond.substack.com/p/from-infinite-potential-to-purposeful)

The Kabbalistic tradition names the originating condition Ein Sof, meaning “without end.” The name is deliberate in its austerity. It does…