Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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Featured writing

When your brilliant idea meets organizational reality: a survival guide

Transform your brilliant tech ideas into reality by navigating organizational challenges and overcoming hidden resistance with this essential survival guide.

Server-Side Dashboard Architecture: Why Moving Data Fetching Off the Browser Changes Everything

How choosing server-side rendering solved security, CORS, and credential management problems I didn't know I had.

AI as Coach: Transforming Professional and Continuing Education

Transform professional and continuing education with AI-driven coaching, offering personalized support, accountability, and skill mastery at scale.

Books

The Work of Being (in progress)

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

The Practice of Work (in progress)

Practical essays on how work actually gets done.

Recent writing

Start, ship, close, sum up: rituals that make work resolve

Most knowledge work never finishes. It just stops. The start, ship, close, and sum-up methodology creates deliberate moments that turn continuous work into resolved units.

Notes and related thinking

The one-person company advantage: why coordination overhead is the new competitive liability

Unlock the power of one-person operations as they outpace traditional teams by leveraging AI, minimizing coordination costs, and enhancing decision speed.

Bookmark: Workers who use AI are more productive at work—but less happy, research finds

AI boosts workplace productivity but may diminish creativity and job satisfaction. Explore the paradox of efficiency versus fulfillment in this insightful...

Article analysis: AI Revolution Reshapes Work and Home, Accelerates Faster Than Any Previous Technology

Discover how generative AI is rapidly reshaping work and home life, achieving unprecedented adoption rates and impacting productivity across industries.