I recently finished Burn Book by Kara Swisher - which is basically a recap of her time covering tech…and given that we’re roughly the same age, her recap matches up with my career pretty well. She worked with Walt Mossberg - who was a household name on the Windows 9x team and I’d often hear execs in my hallway talking to him. Mary Jo Foley was another person I remember writing a lot about Microsoft in those days, and another prominent tech writer from that era.
And then I was talking with a colleague this week, and somehow rambled into part of a story about a time long ago, and thought I’d share it here.
The Best Five Years
I often joke that the two years I spent in the guts of Xbox One were the best five years of my career. It was fun, but stupid at times, but I was fried, so after it shipped in November of 2013, my family and I spent a month in Australia, but then I had to go back to work.
While we were working on Xbox, there was a small team working on a project called Rio. Probably wo…
