Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

F*** Your 'Planning'

Break free from over-planning and embrace uncertainty to unlock your potential. Discover why flexibility fuels success in an unpredictable world.

The issue isn’t plan—plans are fine, in and of themselves. The issue is people who can’t do anything without plans, whose knee-jerk, default response to any unknown is to compulsively “figure out a plan”…to get ‘certainty.’ News flash: there is no certainty….

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