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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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The agent-shaped org chart

Every real org has the same topology: principal, role-holder, specialists. Staff AI maps onto it, node for node, and the cost collapse shows up in the deliverables that were always just human-handoff overhead.

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.

Knowledge work was never work

Knowledge work was always coordination between humans who couldn't share state directly. The artifacts were never the work. They were the overhead — and AI just made the overhead optional.

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 worker isn't lying. The worker is reporting what it thought it did, which is always one step removed from what the world actually shows. The fix isn't more self-honesty. The fix is a different pair of eyes.

Shopping is the last mile

Every meal planning app treats cooking as the hard problem and shopping as a logistics detail. They have it backwards. Cooking is mostly solved. Shopping is the last mile.

Watch what they buy, not what they say

Forms ask people to declare preferences. Receipts record what they did. The gap between the two is where revealed preference lives, and it's wider than most product teams admit.

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.