I’ve been covering business, technology, finance, economics and science for more than 25 years at Business Week, US News & World Report, Wired, and Conde Nast Portfolio. I’ve also written stories for The New York Times,The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Fast Company, Strategy + Business and other publications.
After graduating from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana in 1977, I spent a year as newspaper editor aboard the cruise ship Royal Viking Sky, traveling to more than 30 countries on five continents, from the USSR to Venezuela to French Polynesia.
I then worked at newspapers in Carbondale, Ill., Fort Lauderdale., Corvallis Ore. and Austin. In the early ’80s I spent an academic year as a Vannevar Bush fellow the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Starting in 1985 I spent ten years at Business Week in Detroit, Stamford, Ct., Minneapolis, Washington D.C. (where I had the Pentagon beat, taking me to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to cover the first Gulf War) and finally to San Francisco, where I was bureau manager at the start of the dot-com boom.
That led to two years as managing editor at Wired and two at US News & World Report as senior technology writer. I had a short ride on the dot-com gravy train at Red Hat software, then 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 operating independently, mainly ghostwriting and editing business books and articles, while writing stories for magazines and for the Web. 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.
Bio
I’ve been covering business, technology, finance, economics and science for more than 25 years at Business Week, US News & World Report, Wired, and Conde Nast Portfolio. I’ve also written stories for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Fast Company, Strategy + Business and other publications.
After graduating from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana in 1977, I spent a year as newspaper editor aboard the cruise ship Royal Viking Sky, traveling to more than 30 countries on five continents, from the USSR to Venezuela to French Polynesia.
I then worked at newspapers in Carbondale, Ill., Fort Lauderdale., Corvallis Ore. and Austin. In the early ’80s I spent an academic year as a Vannevar Bush fellow the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Starting in 1985 I spent ten years at Business Week in Detroit, Stamford, Ct., Minneapolis, Washington D.C. (where I had the Pentagon beat, taking me to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to cover the first Gulf War) and finally to San Francisco, where I was bureau manager at the start of the dot-com boom.
That led to two years as managing editor at Wired and two at US News & World Report as senior technology writer. I had a short ride on the dot-com gravy train at Red Hat software, then 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 operating independently, mainly ghostwriting and editing business books and articles, while writing stories for magazines and for the Web. 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.