Daily I drive to McDonald's for a large cup of black coffee. McDonald's coffee is made to please a billion customers, so it's a bland cup of coffee which suits me well. But the McDonald's I frequent has a special group of employees, starred by Israel, my friend at the drive-thru window. I had been paying Israel almost daily for several months. Amazed by his positive and friendly persona, one day I asked him his name, and after that daily I would say "Hi Israel" and he'd a

Five days ago I parked my car evenly in a space at a hardware store with no other car on my driver's side. I was in the store for fifteen minutes. Upon returning to my car, I was devastated, frustrated and mutually pissed off to see a quarter sized "car door ding" six inches below the driver's side door handle. I try to maintain my car faithfully. I'm a "car guy." I veered around to locate the perpetrator and no one could be found. With beeds of sweat rolling down my for

A favorite song of mine is "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve. The violin intro is iconic and carries the melody throughout. But the lyrics also make the song renowned. "Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life Try to make ends meet You're a slave to money then you die." Those lyrics are not uplifting, but they reflect how some feel - we work all our lives to make money and die. Kind of melancholyish....but also a serendipity realism - it's sort of fate. Making mone

Freakonomics Radio has a intriguing podcast on AI's impact on Healthcare. Healthcare needs re-engineering, and AI will have a positive impact on enhancing the efficiency of Healthcare. AI will help in gradually transforming workflows within Healthcare. By the way, Healthcare is the largest user of fax machines (remember those) in the country. As you listen to the podcast, AI is not new to Healthcare, but now is being deployed strategically and practically in terms of gove