A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Kelly Brieger, an old friend in the San Francisco Bay Area who has done extensive communications and public relations work for the Palo Alto Research Center, the famed Xerox-owned R&D lab. Kelly’s daughter Alexandra Brieger contributs to her high school newspaper in Menlo-Atherton, CA, the M-A Bear News, and Alexandra was wondering whether I’d be willing to work with her on an Q&A-style article.
I gladly agreed, and the finished piece was published this week. With permission, we’re republishing the original interview here. I used Alexandra’s excellent questions to give a bit of personal history about my route into science and technology journalism, and to share some advice for ambitious young people about how they can get started in their own careers…