Working for a business magazine certainly has its perks. For instance, yesterday, I was sent home with two beautiful bottles of Cab Sav red wine. The Washington Wine of the Year feature Seattle Magazine is working on resulted in an excess of bottles in our 1st Ave office. And most of the reporters, interns, advertisers and editors reaped the benefits. But, I digress.
Moving cities is never easy. And I'm far from done with it. So when I moved back to Seattle from Eugene, I knew I'd have to play a bit of catch-up in re-learning the top news stories of the year in this vibrant community. In a few short months, I've navigated the system to the point where I feel comfortable attending CEO luncheons, covering state-of-the-industry seminars and interviewing business owners in coffee shops. It's gotten to the point where if I don't begin every morning reading TechFlash, I feel like something's missing. John Cook has become my own personal form of The Today Show-- I crave his news to complete my day. I've written about Seattle's local Bernie Madoffs, highly publicized Ponzi Schemes, the never-ending Boeing layoffs, Microsoft layoffs and folding of several prominent businesses in the area. Intel Research's Open House turned out to be not an afternoon of boring pitches, as I so expected, but a wonderfully creative mecca of up-and-coming technology projects. The brilliance here is endless.
Trite as it sounds, I never dreamed I'd learn this much here. Though I worked for my college daily as the business, science, technology reporter for a quarter, it pales in comparison with all of the hands-on stories I'm able to work on here. Who knew Seattle was such a hotbed for innovative technology, wildly creative startups and the center of the healthcare industry's research and drug labs?
Here are a few of my latest. Am promising to do better with this whole updating business. And here's November's cover story: The Top 25 Innovators and Entrepreneurs of the Year. Congrats to the city's best!
