Moving to SF
Man, it’s been a few weeks, hasn’t it? Well, they’ve been busy. E3 was crazy, hellish, and fun; somehow Paul, Joystiq, and I all managed to make it out alive, which is a real bonus consider the fact that for a few nights there I thought I might keel over from exhaustion. Interviewing Shigeru Miyamoto was absolutely wonderful — totally got to tick that one off from my 100 things to do before I die list. Afterward V and I drove up to NorCal; a week after I came back, Engadget’s Senior Editor and my good friend Marc Perton made his planned departure to his awesome new job (though I see he hasn’t yet written about it on his blog, so I won’t spoil the surprise as to where that is). We’ve also brought on a bunch of amazing new writers in the great summer blogger hunt of ‘06 (whose names you’ll be seeing a lot more of on Engadget in the coming weeks). So yeah, things have been busy around the office.
See, I told you lots of crazy stuff was going down at work; at home, too. Yes, the rumors are true, I’m moving my ass out to San Francisco. Why? No, it’s not some Web 2.0 renaissance thing; chalk it up to five long years (and a few days) spent in New York, the coming deadly humid global-warming-enhanced summer, the certain charms of a particular lady, and the ever constant pressure from the fam to move closer to home (that’d be SoCal). I may yet come back to the Big Apple, we’ll see, but I’ve been wanting to get out of New York for the past couple of years now, so it seems like it’s time. And yes, I’ll still be the Managing Editor of Engadget. Date: June 16th. See you on the west side! I’ll miss you New York, and New York peeps!
[...] Well, Ryan has already blogged it, so I guess the cat’s out of the bag: I’ve left Engadget. More info on where I’m going next in a bit. But to quash those inevitable conspiracy theories: I am not going to any of Engadget’s competitors. In fact, I’d argue that there aren’t really any serious competitors to Engadget. The site stands alone at the pinnacle of the gadget blogging world, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. So, if you haven’t caught on yet, I’m still a big fan of Engadget, and this is most definitely not the place to come if you’re looking for bitter grumblings from a disgruntled ex-employee. I will, however, shed a little light on my penultimate Engadget post, where I wrote a little something about some comments made by Apple’s Steve Jobs in a recent interview with NBC’s Brian Williams: “You keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff,” Jobs said, in response to a question from Williams about why a new iPod might seem outdated as soon as you take it out of the box. Then Jobs offered a bit of advice to consumers: “If you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.” [...]
Pingback by Marc Perton » Blog Archive » The last laugh — Wednesday, May 31, 2006 @ 8:54 pm
Dude I wish you the best with the move. I love the work you do with engadget and am glad to hear your sticking with it.
i live in nyc (staten island) and would rather be nowhere else than san fran, its great out there! Hope everything goes well.
Comment by Mike M. — Sunday, June 11, 2006 @ 8:39 pm
Thanks! It should be interesting, I appreciate the support!
Comment by Ryan Block — Sunday, June 11, 2006 @ 9:28 pm