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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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Are your standards too low?

Are your standards too low?

Elevate your performance by recognizing when your standards are too low. Discover strategies to raise the bar for quality and efficiency.

“This team uses lazy excuses like “there’s a speed vs quality trade-off!” when they are not remotely close to moving fast enough or shipping work that’s high quality enough to breach that boundary.” —Are your standards too low? In defense of raising the bar

Nobody takes you aside anymore

Print taught a generation when to stop. What we lose when the machines absorb the constraints that used to form us.

Your AI agents need a water cooler

Coordination is a property of the room, not the org chart. What that means when your coworkers are agents.

On the death of the author and the birth of the detector

Why worrying about AI authorship is lazier, and more prejudiced, than it looks.

The work of being available now

A book on AI, judgment, and staying human at work.

The practice of work in progress

Practical essays on how work actually gets done.

How to manage content for multiple clients without flattening their voices

How to manage content for multiple clients without their voices blurring into one house style: a workspace and a voice profile per client, batchable stages, and approval buffers.

Why does AI writing sound generic? It has nothing to work with

Why does AI writing sound generic? Because the model has none of your perspective, examples, constraints, or stakes to work with. The fix is interview-first, not better adjectives.

How to train AI to write in your voice, not your vibe

How to train AI to write in your voice isn't a prompt trick. It's a system: writing samples, interview answers, keep/avoid lists, revision loops, and approval gates.

Are you settling for less?

Stop settling for less and discover how raising your standards can lead to greater success and fulfillment in life.

The power of high standards

Elevate your leadership by instilling high standards in your team, fostering accountability even in unseen moments for greater success.

Stop making all the decisions

Overcome decision fatigue by empowering others to share the load and elevate your standards for better outcomes. Discover how today!