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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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The future focuses on durable skills

The future focuses on durable skills

Explore how durable skills are vital for thriving in an automation-driven future and why they will outlast technical expertise.

“durable skills—my preferred term—are essential. And in an automation-focused future, they’ll be even more so.”

The Soft Skills “Debate” Is Over

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.

Boosting productivity with AI

Unlock your potential by leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and streamline workflows for you and your team.

Leading for digital culture creation

Empower your organization by embracing digital culture; learn how effective leadership fosters intentional decision-making and nurtures innovation.

Discover how generative AI is more likely to augment jobs rather than replace them, transforming tasks and creating new opportunities for efficiency and innovation.

Explore how generative AI enhances jobs by automating tasks, fostering efficiency, and creating new opportunities instead of replacing human roles.