About Me

I am a senior writer for Baseline, a business and technology magazine published by Ziff Davis Media, and an opinion columnist for the News & Record, the monopoly daily newspaper in Greensboro, North Carolina. This is my personal site and should not be held against those fine publications. I have been a contributing editor at Wired, a staff writer at Forbes, and a freelancer. I live in North Carolina with my wife, Lisa, our two children, and our dog, Luna.

Detail from a portrait of me by Jack McCook.

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