// 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 06, 2026
One Use at a Time
Twenty thousand titles, one grant
Sep 04, 2026
Tenants at the Frontier
Anthropic gates Mythos, OpenAI drops Cursor, the DOJ backs fair use. Media owns the archive and rents the machine.
Aug 30, 2026
The Record Teaches
Thrawn came back, but the lizards did not. What that decision required is the whole problem.
Aug 28, 2026
The Other Ledger
Why the cost of substitution lands where nobody was measuring
Aug 21, 2026
Four Ways to Reach the Model
Hollywood negotiates, Amazon declares, Brussels legislates, and OpenAI stops itself.
// 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