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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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Instapaper highlights to obsidian notes pipeline

Instapaper highlights to obsidian notes pipeline

Streamline your reading workflow by converting Instapaper highlights into organized notes in Obsidian. Boost your productivity today!

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”I have recently upgraded my Instapaper account to use it more consistently for highlighting articles on my phone and laptop when I get the chance to work through the large backlog.”

Instapaper Highlights to Obsidian Notes Pipeline

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.

Did the state change? A simple test for whether work actually happened

Either something exists now that did not exist before, or it does not. A simple test for whether work actually happened, and what changes when you build your systems so they can't record anything else.

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.

Article analysis: Maximizing organizational productivity: Analyzing ai’’s transformative potential

Unlock the potential of AI to enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and boost productivity in your organization with actionable insights and real-world...

Manual fluency is the prerequisite for agent supervision

You cannot responsibly automate what you cannot do manually. AI agents speed up work for people who already know how to do it. They do not replace the need to learn the work in the first place.

Your process was built for a different speed

When work changes velocity, governance systems don't just fall behind. They become theater. And theater is worse than nothing—it gives you the feeling of control without any of the substance.