By Michael Brown

My dad gave me some advice when I was a kid. “Be careful what you wish for,” he said, “because you just might get it.”

I’ve thought of that advice many times over the past few weeks as I’ve pondered my role as editor in chief of Maximum PC. As I said in my first column [“I Am the Firestarter,” March 2005], I never got over the unmitigated joy of writing for this magazine. And the more time I spent in meetings, tending to details, and performing the administrative duties that a manager is tasked with, the more I realized how little time I was spending playing with the latest tech gear, talking with vendors about developing trends and new products, and writing.

As much as I thought I wanted to be editor in chief of this great magazine, I’ve come to realize that while being at the top of the masthead has been an honor, it wasn’t delivering the sense of professional accomplishment I’m looking for. So I am relinquishing the title of editor in chief and stepping into the role of executive editor, where I’ll be able to do more of what I dig about being a journalist: benchmarking hardware, evaluating software, celebrating the best products the tech industry has to offer—and mercilessly disparaging the rest.

The editor in chief’s job is unquestionably the most important position at any magazine. This is the person who is responsible for setting the magazine’s editorial direction, for deciding which stories and products are worthy of coverage, for honing the magazine’s edge, and for keeping the rest of us on our toes. It gives me great pleasure to inform you that beginning with the very next issue, that position will be filled by Maximum PC’s current executive editor, Will Smith.

Will brings supreme tech savvy, excellent leadership skills, and unshakable integrity to the job. He’s going make a fantastic editor in chief.

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