// 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.
Sep 28, 2026
Half a Remedy
In 1948 the government split Paramount from its theaters and banned block booking. In 2026 it kept the ban and skipped the split.
Sep 27, 2026
The Revocation List
Legitimacy, Part I
Sep 25, 2026
Our IBC 2026 Analysis
Fewer buyers, one correction, and a question of timing
Sep 20, 2026
Everything Is Replaceable
Ten months passed between successful playback and the old packager being switched off
Sep 18, 2026
The Supplier Inside Your Supplier
Last time I argued that a foundation model is a supplier whenever its output goes into something you deliver, and that since the model makers will not sign a services agreement, the controls have to…
// 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