Prior to his current position, he was a laundry room attendant at summer camp; an office manager at a graphic design company; a senior editor at Tower Records' Pulse! (and Classical Pulse!) magazine from 1989-1996, and as contributing editor to Pulse! from 1997-2002; and the editorial director for music at citysearch.com.^[1]

At Viz Media he was the managing editor of Shonen Jump.^[2] and was then promoted to editorial director after helping launch the Naruto Collector magazine. Later he became vice president and editor-in-chief of both Shonen Jump and the sister magazine Shojo Beat.^[2][3] He left the company in February 2009.^[4]

In 1991, he wrote for Pulse! upon the popularity of Gregorian chants with college dope-smokers.^[5] Pulse! magazine published a monthly cartoon and his editorial policy was to ask artists to submit three strip cartoons to choose from.^[6] He now writes for the journals Nature and his web magazine Disquiet on the subject of ambient sound and experimental music.^[7] In 2014 Bloomsbury published his book on the album Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Aphex Twin as part of its 33 1/3 series.