My mornings don’t begin with coffee. They begin with alerts. Overnight product launches, sudden outages, leaked memos, regulatory whispers—technology doesn’t sleep, and neither does the news cycle around it. By the time most people wake up, the story has already moved on twice. My job is to figure out what actually matters.
Being a tech news writer isn’t about chasing every headline. It’s about filtering signal from noise. A new AI model drops? Interesting—but who benefits, and who gets displaced? A startup raises millions? Fine—but what problem are they really solving? The press releases are polished; the truth usually lives between the lines.
Most days are spent reading—developer forums, court filings, obscure blog posts, earnings calls that sound dull until one sentence changes everything. Tech companies rarely say what they mean directly. You learn to notice what they avoid saying. That skill comes with time, skepticism, and a healthy distance from hype.
There’s pressure to be fast, but speed is a trap. The internet rewards the first take, not always the best one. I’ve learned that credibility compounds slowly and collapses instantly. Getting it right matters more than getting it first, even when the metrics suggest otherwise.
What surprises people is how human tech news really is. Behind every “platform update” are exhausted engineers. Behind every “disruption” are workers quietly replaced. Behind every sleek demo is a room full of compromises. Writing about technology is really writing about power—who has it, who builds it, and who lives with the consequences.
Some days, the work feels heavy. Especially when stories involve surveillance, layoffs, or broken promises dressed up as innovation. Other days, there’s genuine excitement—open-source breakthroughs, tools that lower barriers, ideas that actually make life better. Those stories remind me why I stay.
Tech moves fast, but understanding takes time. My role isn’t to amplify the noise—it’s to slow things down just enough so people can see what’s really happening beneath the headlines.