I’ve been covering the confluence of business and technology for more than 25 years.

After graduating from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, I spent a year as newspaper editor aboard the cruise ship Royal Viking Sky, traveling to more than 30 countries on five continents.

I then worked at newspapers in Carbondale, Ill., Fort Lauderdale, Corvallis Ore. and Austin, Texas. In the early ’80s I spent an academic year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a Vannevar Bush Fellowship.

In 1985 I joined the staff of Business Week magazine, where I worked for ten years: in Detroit, Stamford, Ct., Minneapolis, Washington DC (where I covered the Pentagon and went to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to cover the first Gulf War) and finally to San Francisco, where I was bureau manager.

In the mid-90s I became managing editor of Wired magazine for two years before being recruited by US News & World Report as senior technology writer. I had a short ride on the dot-com gravy train at Red Hat software. After that, I became executive editor and then editor in chief of Business 2.0 magazine.

Recently I spent two years as senior writer at the well-funded but ultimately doomed Conde Nast Portfolio.

Now I’m working independently, writing for Strategy + Business and other magazines and websites. I also ghostwrite material for corporate executives.

Recent work-related travel has taken me to China, Brazil, Switzerland, Mozambique and the United Arab Emirates.

I live in Berkeley, Ca., with my wife and 4-year-old daughter.