// 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.
Aug 16, 2026
The Canon Problem
World models, persistent worlds, and the new work of deciding what counts
Aug 14, 2026
What the Badge Buys
Spotify, Anthropic, and Meta just showed that provenance is a distribution decision
Aug 09, 2026
The Succession
Persistence, Part IV
Aug 07, 2026
When AI Stops Watching
Media over QUIC could turn AI from an observer of the video pipeline into a publisher inside it
Aug 02, 2026
The Long Memory
Persistence, Part III
// 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