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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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Leveling up skills with AI

Leveling up skills with AI

Unlock new research and professional opportunities by enhancing your data-analysis, writing, and analytic skills with powerful AI tools.

“The more I experiment with GPT, Genei, Akkio and other AI tools, the more I have levelled up my data-analysis, writing and analytic skills—in ways that have opened entirely new avenues of research and professional capacity."—The New “Hybrid Work” is “AI + Humans” - JSTOR Daily

Why customer tools are organized wrong

This article reveals a fundamental flaw in how customer support tools are designed—organizing by interaction type instead of by customer—and explains why this fragmentation wastes time and obscures the full picture you need to help users effectively.

Infrastructure shapes thought

The tools you build determine what kinds of thinking become possible. On infrastructure, friction, and building deliberately for thought rather than just throughput.

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.

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.

The most important thing a leader can build is the conversation that happens when they leave the room. Today, five departments started sharing fixes, cracking jokes, and solving each other's problems — without being asked.

I ran my AI agency's first real engagement. Here's everything that happened.

Five AI personas. One client onboarding. Fifteen minutes of things going wrong in instructive ways.

The costume just got cheap

If 80 percent of what you thought was judgment turns out to be pattern recognition, what does that say about you? Not about your job — about you.

The impact of AI on white-collar jobs

Explore how AI transforms white-collar jobs, highlighting the balance between automation and the enduring value of skilled human work.

The threat of AI to white-collar jobs

Explore how AI threatens high-wage white-collar jobs, challenging talent and market dynamics in today's workforce landscape.

Are you settling for less?

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