One of my favorite Richard Branson stories is the anecdote that his mother used to drop him off several miles from home, as a teenager, forcing him to find his way home. In the era before cell phones and GPS on demand it probably was a pretty daunting task and one that definitely got Branson out of his comfort zone. It made me think back to my childhood in rural Wisconsin. My brother and I were always on the move, stomping through the woods in and around our little town. It’s a common refrain you hear from many parents, the standard “back in my day we only came home when it was dark” line. Of course it’s a different world now. My kids are growing up in beautiful, but also densely populated Orange County, California and in these modern times I can’t just let them roam around. In this connected era we want to know where our kids are at at all times and can communicate with them at all times. The access to technology has clearly paid dividends and connected all of us, but it’s also helped create a generation where the ease of technology has created a dependency dynamic. It’s impossible to get lost when you have GPS access at all times. Stuck somewhere? Call Uber.