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title: "Family Vs. Technology"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/14/family-vs-technology.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/14/family-vs-technology.html"
published: "2003-06-14T18:03:00"
updated: "2003-06-14T18:03:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Scoble writes about the daily struggle between family and technology. I totally understand and share a lot of what he's going through. Sometimes we all need to face the mirror and say to ourselves \" OK. Just turn off…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Family Vs. Technology

By Roy Osherove June 14, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 14, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[Scoble writes](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2003/06/13.html#a3323) about the daily struggle between family and technology. I totally understand and share a lot of what he's going through. Sometimes we all need to face the mirror and say to ourselves "_OK. Just turn **off** the damn computer_". I know that whenever I do, I always wonder aftwerwards why it seemed so hard to detach from my computer. If anything, I come back to the computer revived and filled with life and love.

Hopfully, Scoble "got" it and is now out there on a quiet computerless weekend, not reading all those great comments people left him on that post, spending some quality time with the family.

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    ### [Ouch!](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/13/ouch.html)

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    ### [Coolest Birthday Ever](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/12/coolest-birthday-ever.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
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