I told Randi Zuckerberg, at the start of our first of three interviews at CES, by the end of the day she was either going to hate me or we were going to be CES BFF’s.
Here’s how it turned out:
Randi Zuckerberg knows a thing or two about oversharing, and she’s learned a lot along the way. In fact, she’s taken what she learned and turned it into a book, Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives.
Most people think of Randi Zuckerberg as Facebook founder Mark’s big sister, but she’s also an entrepreneur, a mom, and an author, willing to share her struggles as well as her triumphs.
Randi joined us at MommyTech at CES in Las Vegas, where she said she loved seeing women take the tech world by storm. In our MommyTech TV interview she talked about how difficult it is in a connected world to find balance between devoting yourself to your career as well as your family.
Randi says she’s perfected the art of “lopsided parenting,” meaning sometimes she spends a little too much time working, for instance, on her recent book tour. But then she makes up for it by making lots of time for family.
You can watch the video from one of the interviews here:
1. Parents need to know the tech their kids use every day. You don’t need to be on every social site, but you do need a baseline familiarity with the tech that your children are using.
2. Don’t place your phone on the table when meeting friends or dining with family. It says that any small interruption is more important than the person you’re spending time with.
3. Pay attention to people around you, and don’t feel obligated to return every email immediately. Just because someone sent it, doesn’t mean you need to stop what you’re doing and answer it.
4. About those selfies: Just because you can document every single thing you do doesn’t mean you should. In fact, if you’re constantly taking pictures, chances are you won’t actually remember what it was you saw.
5. Manage your technology, and make it work for you. Use it so you can get home in time to put your children to bed, but don’t spend the rest of the night answering email. It’s important to set boundaries between your public and private life.
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