Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Top Skills for Efficient Tech Use

Top Skills for Efficient Tech Use
Discover the essential skills for efficient tech use, including creativity, prompt engineering, and strategic thinking to enhance your productivity.

“Users also ranked creativity as the number one skill necessary to use the technology efficiently, followed by prompt engineering, strategy and editing."—Essential Skills for Efficient Technology Use


Featured writing

When your brilliant idea meets organizational reality: a survival guide

Transform your brilliant tech ideas into reality by navigating organizational challenges and overcoming hidden resistance with this essential survival guide.

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.

AI as Coach: Transforming Professional and Continuing Education

Transform professional and continuing education with AI-driven coaching, offering personalized support, accountability, and skill mastery at scale.

Books

The Work of Being (in progress)

A book on AI, judgment, and staying human at work.

The Practice of Work (in progress)

Practical essays on how work actually gets done.

Recent writing

Start, ship, close, sum up: rituals that make work resolve

Most knowledge work never finishes. It just stops. The start, ship, close, and sum-up methodology creates deliberate moments that turn continuous work into resolved units.

Notes and related thinking

Embracing the AI Workforce

Discover how AI enhances the workplace by fostering collaboration and spontaneity, offering a fresh alternative to traditional office dynamics.

The Future of Remote Work

Explore the evolving landscape of remote work, highlighting employee preferences and the balance between flexibility and social interaction.

The Power of Executive Assistants

Unlock the potential of executive assistants to enhance school leadership effectiveness and drive impactful meetings forward.