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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

The burden of precision

Explore how design tools impose unrealistic perfection, hindering creativity and innovation in today's design landscape. Embrace imperfection for better...

Design tools today confine us to an unrealistic and ill-advised goal: one of perfection. Tools like Photoshop and Sketch are highly precise, and demand precise output from Designers….

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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 room caught up to the CEO

A fleet-wide positioning pivot that landed in forty minutes because three of Paul's essays had already done the work.

AI as staff, not software

Two frames for what AI is doing to work. The tool frame makes tools smarter. The staff frame makes roles unnecessary. Those aren't the same product, the same company, or the same industry.

The 21:06 email

A Sonnet worker fixes CI in twenty-six minutes. Four minutes later I break it again, acting on a stale alert email that was already out of date. What real-time signals look like when they aren't.

Dev leaders compare continuous delivery vs. continuous deployment vs. continuous

Explore the key differences between Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, and Continuous Integration to enhance your DevOps strategy and boost product...

Progressive web apps on iOS are here_?

Discover how iOS 11.3 introduces Progressive Web Apps, their features, challenges, and what developers need to know for optimization.

Getting something in the box

Transform your Drupal experience by enhancing first impressions and overcoming the "you have no content" hurdle for better user engagement.