I’ve been exploring questions of agency for nearly forty years—long before the birth of agentic systems.

Three decades operating at the speed of cultural and technological transformation: documenting the explosive creativity of downtown NYC in the 1980s; building content strategies for the world’s biggest media, finance, and tech companies; leading blockchain platform marketing; and launching a real estate startup designed to challenge the data monopoly of brokers. All guided by one question: How do we design systems that empower rather than control users?

Now, as agentic AI transforms every vertical from media to finance and real estate, the questions I’ve been asking are becoming urgent: How do we protect human agency when we delegate decision-making to machines?

Now available for editorial leadership, AI content strategy and marketing, storytelling, and consulting. Fractional, project-based, and advisory roles welcome.

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