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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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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

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.

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.