People assume my job is about speed—being first, breaking news, pushing alerts before anyone else does. In reality, being a tech news guy is less about chasing the future and more about filtering it. Every day, hundreds of stories fight for attention. Most of them won’t matter in six months. A few will quietly reshape how we live.
My mornings begin with noise. Press releases promising “revolutionary” updates. Founders declaring the next big shift. Leaks, rumors, screenshots taken out of context. The hardest part isn’t finding news—it’s deciding what not to cover. Hype is easy to report. Signal takes patience.
What fascinates me most is how technology repeats itself. Every few years, we rediscover the same ideas with better hardware and new branding. AI, social platforms, virtual worlds—they all arrive wrapped in optimism, followed by backlash, regulation, and eventually, normalization. Watching this cycle unfold has made me less cynical and more curious. Patterns are comforting when everything claims to be unprecedented.
Writing about tech also changes how you see progress. Innovation isn’t always loud. Sometimes the most important updates are buried in release notes or policy changes no one reads. A small tweak to an algorithm can affect millions more than a flashy product launch. I’ve learned to read between the lines, especially when companies say just enough to avoid saying too much.
There’s a personal cost too. Being constantly plugged in makes it hard to unplug. You start measuring time in update cycles. You notice how quickly outrage moves on. One day a feature is controversial; the next day it’s forgotten. That transience makes you careful with words. Headlines can shape narratives long after the facts settle.
The best moments of my job aren’t when a story goes viral. They’re when readers write back saying, “I hadn’t thought about it that way.” That’s when journalism works—not as amplification, but as context.
In the end, covering tech isn’t about predicting the future. It’s about documenting the present honestly enough that the future makes sense later. My role isn’t to hype what’s coming—it’s to ask what it costs, who it benefits, and what we’re trading away while everyone’s busy looking forward.