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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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Stop making all the decisions

Stop making all the decisions

Overcome decision fatigue by empowering others to share the load and elevate your standards for better outcomes. Discover how today!

“Reduce decision fatigue: Stop being the only one who catches stuff that slips through the cracks and being the only one who makes decisions.” —Are your standards too low? In defense of raising the bar

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.

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.

Are you settling for less?

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

The power of high standards

Elevate your leadership by instilling high standards in your team, fostering accountability even in unseen moments for greater success.

AI offers relief from email overload

Transform your email management with AI tools that help triage and compose replies, making remote work more efficient and sustainable.