What I'm Doing Here
Optimism from a world reshaped by technology, told through media, machines, and the ocean...
What If Progress Costs Us Too Much?
We were told technology would free us: More time. More creativity. Fewer limits.
Instead, we find ourselves outside locked newsrooms, staring at blinking servers, at coastlines where intelligent mammals dodge propellers and nets, at screenfuls of AI-generated content that say nothing real, gaining speed, and losing direction.
This is my attempt to pay attention, to lift my head above the parapet, and to be accountable for what I think…
The Central Thread
This Substack explores the unintended consequences of technology - and we can shape its course.
Not to stop it. Not to worship it. But to make it human again.
I write about the cracks in the systems we thought were unshakeable - and the people trying to make something better in their place. I tell stories. I travel. I use AI. I question it. I document the collision between invention and consequence.
And I do it through three distinct but tightly connected lenses.
Media Unmade:
Digital platforms and AI are dismantling the institutions that shaped our understanding of the world.
The newsroom is collapsing inward. The editor is now an algorithm, now a human. The journalist is fast becoming a creator, a brand, or a casualty.
In Media Unmade, I look at how storytelling is evolving and how we can avoid we confusing virality with truth. I write about the rise of independent media, the fall of legacy gatekeepers, and the dangerous middle ground we inhabit now.
Blue Pulse:
Our oceans are no longer remote. They are increasingly surveiled, mapped, mined, and contested.
In Blue Pulse, I document the human-ocean interface with a focus on optimistic solutions to conflict that facilitate coexistence.
Orcas interacting with yacht rudders. Supertrawlers gutting ecosystems. Scientists scrambling to understand intelligence that doesn’t fit into our models and language that doesn't speak our name.
These stories are not just about wildlife. They are about how we can live on this planet without breaking it.
AI and Agents:
I use AI. I build with it. I test it in storytelling, research, and systems design.
But I’m not trying to automate myself. I’m trying to see what’s possible when we humans stay in the loop.
In AI and Agents, I explore the creative and ethical tensions of artificial intelligence. From GPTs to autonomous assistants, I look at how these tools could shape the future of work, and to avoid what happens if we hand over more than we meant to.
Sometimes I publish reflections. Sometimes experiments. Sometimes conversations with the machines themselves.
What You’ll Find Here
This isn’t a niche blog. It’s a map.
You’ll find:
Essays on media, ecology, and technology
Dispatches from field research; marine, media, or both
Experiments with AI workflows in storytelling
A slowly-unfolding argument about how we must stay human in all this
There’s no schedule, but expect something most weeks.
No rage farming. No hustle tactics. Just optimistic stories worth your time.
Why I’m Doing This
At heart I’m a documentary filmmaker and storyfinder. I work from a van and a boat, tracing the boundary layers between human and ecological systems.
This Substack is to be my field journal - a record of what I’m noticing, testing, and questioning as I go.
It’s also an invitation: to think more deeply, to pay attention differently, and to tell stories that help us stay human.
Subscribe if…
You’re trying to understand the shape of change
You want more signal, and less noise
You’re tired of certainty - but still believe in meaning
Subscribe. Skim a bit. Reflect more.
And if something lands, hit reply. I’ll read it. You too have agency.