Dave Asprey's Bio

Writing

The other way to get to really learn something is to write about it. I started my writing career as a journalist for technical publications in the early 90's. Things I wrote were published in Home Office Computing, PC Today, PC Novice, and a few other magazines. I also did some work on the Internet Business Guide Second Edition, which was authored by Rosalind Resnick and Dave Taylor. Rosalind went on to start a company which was acquired by Doubleclick, and Dave Taylor was the author of Elm, the first real Unix email program. I wish I had stayed in touch with them!

I went on to start a book based on my Business Class Internet class. I wrote about 300 pages of it, but differences with the publisher prevented me from ever publishing it.

I finally did something big in 2002, when I wrote about 1/3 of PriceWaterhouseCoopers' "Technology Forecast: 2002-2005 Volume II." PWC publishes these 800-page books every two years and sells them for $400 to CIOs and executives. I contributed chapters on Systems & Network Management and Performance & Availability, covering a broad range of topics including SLAs, performance management, 3-tier architecture, caching, load balancing, firewalls, intrusion detection, ISPs, web hosting, colocation, site replication, web servers, logging, application servers, and databases.

I'm debating doing something new, but looking for a topic and someone to collaborate with.