Agents & Agency

Writing

Essays, columns, and data journalism

Agents and Agency is where I write now: research-based essays on AI, work, and human agency, with plenty of footnotes. Most of the jokes are in the footnotes. Below that are my Kauffman pieces and earlier work from the Kansas City Business Journal.

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Unprompted

AI agents are starting to act before we ask, drafting and deciding on our behalf before we name a goal. The essay asks what happens to human agency when the friction of being asked goes away.

Agents & Agency, on Substack

New essays go to Substack first, on no fixed schedule.

Agents & Agency · No. 4Unprompted
Unprompted: What Happens When We Give AI Power to Act on Our Behalf?Jul 2026
Agents & Agency · No. 3The Liquidity Crisis of Expertise
Why AI Needs Cognitive RedundancyJan 2026
Agents & Agency · No. 2The Rise of the Agentic Class
AI and the New Digital DivideOct 2025
Agents & Agency · No. 1Our Perfect Future
Terms and Conditions May ApplyOct 2025

Kauffman

More Kauffman pieces4 · 2016–2019

Earlier

As Director of Research at the Kansas City Business Journal, I wrote more than 130 articles and lists, including one on remarriage rates. In all, I've written or contributed to more than 35 pieces across outlets.