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You! Get Off of My Cloud! And Other Tales from the Family-Data-Sharing Economy](https://time.com/4960646/hey-you-get-off-of-my-cloud/) 'I'm not sure Apple is improving my life by making me feel so old and uncool' [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 17, 2017 ### [What Do I Do Now? A Midlife Career Change May Be Just the Challenge You Need](https://time.com/4904283/midlife-crisis-career-change/) When was the last time you asked yourself what you're good at? [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 8, 2017 ### [Invasion of the Garden Snatcher and Other Tales of Suburban Apocalypse](https://time.com/4810467/invasion-of-the-garden-snatcher-and-other-tales-of-suburban-apocalypse/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 13, 2017 ### [A Letter of Apology to a Son Graduating from College](https://time.com/4737972/son-graduating-college-letter/) 'Maybe every joy carries a bit of regret' [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 30, 2017 ### [How My Vacuum Cleaner Helped Me Stop Worrying](https://time.com/4718033/roomba-love-alexa-automation/) Automated gadgets have some existential purpose — at least in my house [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 2, 2017 ### [The Most Important Difference Between an Elite Athlete and a Middle-Aged Writer](https://time.com/4688233/the-most-important-difference-between-an-elite-athlete-and-a-middle-aged-writer/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 1, 2016 ### [The Crucial Difference Between Christmas and a Trip to the Store](https://time.com/4587681/the-crucial-difference-between-christmas-and-a-trip-to-the-store/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 10, 2016 ### [How to Recover from This No Good, Very Bad Election Season and All Its Spooky Horrors](https://time.com/4565966/how-to-recover-from-this-no-good-very-bad-election-season-and-all-its-spooky-horrors/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Oct 13, 2016 ### [My Household Get-out-the-vote Campaign Hits a Teen Roadblock](https://time.com/4529452/my-household-get-out-the-vote-campaign-hits-a-teen-roadblock/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 11, 2016 ### [Dear Mr. Putin: Here's Why You Should Help Save My Beloved BlackBerry](https://time.com/4447974/dear-mr-putin-heres-why-you-should-help-save-my-beloved-blackberry/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 21, 2016 ### [What This 'Good Enough' Mother Learned from an Extraordinary Babysitter](https://time.com/4416691/good-enough-mother/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 16, 2016 ### [There’s a Difference Between a Boss and a Friend](https://time.com/4371179/boss-friend/) And that’s as it should be [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/kristin-van-ogtrop-2/","name":"Kristin van Ogtrop"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/kristin-van-ogtrop-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/kristin-van-ogtrop-2/"},"name":"Kristin van Ogtrop","jobTitle":null,"description":"Van Ogtrop is the author of Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom.","url":"https://time.com/author/kristin-van-ogtrop-2/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```