You Found It

Welcome to Notes from the Machine. I'm glad you're here.

Notes from the Machine is the companion to Found in the Machine, the podcast I make about the forgotten people, decisions, and accidents that quietly shaped the digital world. If you found your way here through the show, you already know the territory. If you're new, the short version is this: every piece of technology has a human backstory, and I go looking for those stories.

This newsletter exists because some things don't survive the edit.

Each issue arrives with a new episode, every other week. You'll find four things inside:

• The Story. A readable version of the episode script. The same story, written to be read rather than heard.
• Left on the Cutting Room Floor. Something that didn't make it into the episode. A source I couldn't fit. A detail that complicated the narrative. A thread I pulled that went somewhere interesting but not quite far enough.
• Sources. Actual materials I used, with enough context to know where to start if you want to go further. Research is most useful when you can follow it somewhere.
• From the Field. A short note from me. What I'm working on. A question the episode left me with. Whatever is sitting at the edge of the next story.

The show is for the curious, not the credentialed. So is this.

New issue drops with each episode. The next one is coming soon.