// Writing
Engines of Change.
Engines of Change explores how media evolves when the systems underneath it change. AI is the loudest of those changes right now. It isn't the only one. The essays follow what's shifting in production, distribution, archives, and identity, and what that means for the people doing the work.
Published from Portland, with a cocktail at the end of every Deep Cut.
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// Start Here
New to Engines of Change? These three essays are the best introduction to the work.
Jul 26, 2026
The Drag
Persistence, Part II
Jul 24, 2026
The Record and the Decision
The redirect that saved the piece and the re-encode that shrank the file sit next to each other in the chain, both correctly signed.
Jul 19, 2026
What Carries Forward
Persistence, Part I
Jul 17, 2026
The Receipts Layer
A breach, a backlash, a bill, and a standard converge on the same missing record.
Jul 12, 2026
Video as a Data Type
A reference architecture for AI-era media
// Editorial Arcs · 2026
Series 01
The Inheritance Shift
What media inherits from its past and what gets discarded as machine intelligence rewrites the creative process. Fully published.
CompleteSeries 02
The Human Layer
Where people fit in a media stack that increasingly runs on software. What roles persist, what disappears, what gets harder to do well. Fully published.
CompleteSeries 03
The Control Layer
The infrastructure questions. Who controls the systems, who can audit them, who gets to write the rules of operation. Two essays published.
In progress