// 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 07, 2026
Founders Memo 003
Watch now | June 2026
Jul 05, 2026
What's Taking So Long?
Watch now | AI in the Content Supply Chain, Three Years In
Jul 03, 2026
Welcome to the In-Between
What these three series were building toward, and where it goes next.
Jun 28, 2026
The Substrate Barons
Consolidation and the Recurring Pattern (Part IV and conclusion of the Control Layer series)
Jun 26, 2026
Someone Else’s Off-Switch
The access you treat as infrastructure can be switched off by people you never signed with and Fable 5 was the demonstration.
// 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