Greetings, I am now in month number five. By the original plan of January to June, I would have been home by now. By the first adjusted plan of February to August, I would have less than a month left. Now I am looking at October 1st. Or maybe home for the holidays. There are […]
Author: Michael G. Lortz
What I’m Reading: June 2018 – Science, War, Information Conflict, Cyber Conflict, and Looney Tunes
Articles I found most interesting in June 2018: This Is Why Physicists Think String Theory Might Be Our ‘Theory Of Everything – Medium.com, Starts With a Bang, 6/14/2018 A quick look at a very deep subject. Theoretical physics has always fascinated me. Especially string theory. I’ve often wondered if the movement along the strings could […]
A Current Reading of Man, The State, and War by Kenneth Waltz
(As previously published on my Medium.com page.) As a former International Affairs scholar, I accumulated a lot of political theory books. Some I’ve read, some I hope to, and some I may never get to. But they look good on my bookshelves. One of the books I have always been interested in reading and recently […]
Ramadan, Star Wars, and My Fourth Month in Qatar
Greetings all, A few days ago I passed my fourth month in Qatar. I’m definitely in the routine now, but still trying to experience new things. Work is good. It is picking up and I am staying busy. I still don’t know when I will be returning back to the states. Government contracting work […]
What I’m Reading: May 2018 – Analysis, Innovation, International Cooperation, Information Operations, Intelligence, and Childish Gambino
Articles I found most interesting in May 2018: How Do I Get My First Full-Time Business, Competitive, or Market Intelligence Job? – 5/10/2018, Craig Fleisher, LinkedIn Dr. Fleisher was a professor of mine at the University of South Florida MBA program. He has been in the Analysis field for many years and provides some great […]
The Cottage Industry of Bashing New Star Wars Media
This post is a spin-off of a post I wrote yesterday on Medium.com entitled The Star Wars Sandbox and The Last Jedi: Why #NotMyStarWars Means #NotMySandbox. That post debunks folks who think the Star Wars stories should be a certain way because that’s what they expect. Remember: a Wookiee was aroused by a hologram during […]
Three months and counting in Qatar
Greetings, I am entering my fourth month here in Qatar, which means I just concluded my third month, which should be halfway. Maybe. More on that later. Month three was good. Work has picked up and I am working with a new team of military folks. One of the exciting things about these kind of jobs […]
What I’m Reading: April 2018 – Innovation, Global Conflict Problems, Solutions, and Cooperation
Here are articles I found most interesting in April 2018: The 20-year-old entrepreneur is a lie – MIT Sloan School of Management, 4/20/2018 Although young entrepreneurs get all the headlines, two MIT professors found that the average age of a entrepreneur is in their 40s. This is mostly due to experience in the field, understanding […]
The Qatari Two Month Milestone
So it has been two months already. Month two flew by. I am still in Qatar, still doing well. Still trying new things. Work has been good. I am working with an Army team. My past military experience has been a great way to connect. I talk to the senior leaders about shared experiences in […]
What I’m Reading: March 2018 – Strategy, International Order, Information Conflict, Marketing, the Dark Web, and Baseball
Here are the articles I found most interesting in March 2018: Two Worlds of Strategy – The Strategy Bridge, 3/6/2018 This was my favorite article of the month. Dr. Mike Hennelly discusses a phenomenon I noticed when I started work on my MBA – that military strategy and business strategy are very similar. Both work […]