{"id":45,"date":"2003-09-24T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/2003\/09\/24\/technology-attachment-disorder-tad\/"},"modified":"2003-09-24T12:30:01","modified_gmt":"2003-09-24T16:30:01","slug":"technology-attachment-disorder-tad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/2003\/09\/24\/technology-attachment-disorder-tad\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Attachment Disorder (TAD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a66'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I saw the following in someone&#8217;s sig and loved it:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TAD (Technology Attachment Disorder) is an unshakable, impractical devotion to a brand, platform, product line, or programming language. It&#8217;s relatively harmless among the rank and file, but when management is afflicted the damage can be measured in dollars. It&#8217;s also contagious &#8212; someone with sufficient political clout can infect an entire organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&#8220;Enterprise Strategies&#8221; columnist Tom Yager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the following in someone&#8217;s sig and loved it: &#8220;TAD (Technology Attachment Disorder) is an unshakable, impractical devotion to a brand, platform, product line, or programming language. It&#8217;s relatively harmless among the rank and file, but when management is afflicted the damage can be measured in dollars. It&#8217;s also contagious &#8212; someone with sufficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}