Insights & Perspectives
I use this space to explore questions that come out of my work in media technology and operations. Some become essays about leadership, reliability, and change. Others become operating guides or tools that help someone work through a practical problem. Here you will find what I am learning, how I approach the work, and a few ideas still taking shape.
Television Archive Discovery
Finding historic television footage often means figuring out who covered an event, whether the recordings survive, and who holds them today. I am exploring a search tool that connects those steps, helping researchers turn an event description into useful archive leads, supporting sources, and people to contact.
Three iPhones and a Plan for a Live YouTube Podcast
A friend had three iPhones, a RØDECaster Video, and a plan for a live YouTube podcast. I needed to help him put it together with instructions he could follow without me there. The result was a production guide covering setup, rehearsal, monitoring, and what to do when something goes wrong.
Two Internet Providers Are Not a Resilience Strategy
A second connection or backup system can still depend on the same thing that takes the primary system down. Drawing on broadcast experience and documented outages, I examine how those dependencies hide in plain sight, what meaningful recovery testing should reveal, and how to decide which services an organization must preserve.
Building the Horizon Calculator
A question while hiking grew into a tool for exploring antenna height, Earth’s curvature, and terrain between two locations. I describe how the Radio Horizon Calculator developed through repeated testing, what the data taught me, and how experience planning live broadcasts shaped the questions the tool needed to answer.