Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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The Future of Office Attendance

The Future of Office Attendance

Explore the evolving landscape of office attendance as remote work remains popular, revealing key trends and insights for the future workplace.

Is this the new normal? Will this last?

“Despite the corporate push for a return to the office, data suggests that office attendance is still below pre-pandemic levels. Placer.ai’s Nationwide Office Building Index, which looked at 800 office buildings, found that numbers were more than the majority at 60% of pre-pandemic levels."—

The Death of The Copier: Resisting the Return: Executives Ditch the Copier for the Comfort of Remote Work

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.

Dev reflection - February 16, 2026

So here's something I want to think through today. I've been working across several projects simultaneously, and what's striking me isn't the building. It's the deleting. The removing. The taking a...

Dev reflection - February 15, 2026

I want to talk about what happens when something stops being a tool and becomes plumbing. Because that shift is happening in my work right now, and I think it's happening everywhere, and most peopl...

Building in public is broken — here's how to fix your signal-to-noise ratio

Building in public promised accountability and community. It delivered content production under a different name. Most builders now spend more time documenting work than doing it, trapped in a perform

The Power of High Standards

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

The Future of American Jobs

Explore how AI and e-commerce will reshape American jobs by 2030, and discover the opportunities for workers in evolving industries.

The Rise of Remote Work

Discover how top executives are reshaping the future of work by choosing remote options, blending strategy with personal preference.