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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Drafts app is great

Unlock your productivity with Drafts app, the ultimate tool for quick note-taking and seamless organization. Enhance your workflow today!

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.

Memory is (almost) solved. time is next.

AI can't tell if a memory is two minutes or two weeks old. The fix isn't making models feel time — it's cache invalidation: an as-of stamp on every fact, a clock in the context, and a freshness window for anything volatile.

The 19% slowdown nobody wants to talk about

Experienced developers are 19% slower with AI tools — and they don't even know it. The data says the productivity revolution isn't about faster code. It's about fixing the system around the code.

Busy was always avoidance

Staying busy kept you from noticing where you were. AI didn't create the abyss—it just forced you to look.

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.