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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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5 use cases for AI

5 use cases for AI

Discover how AI transforms the workplace with creative writing, email marketing, and more in these five impactful use cases.

“Overall, the top five biggest use cases for gen AI in the workplace are creative writing, email marketing, idea generation, blog posts and writing product content.” (The AI in Business Trend Report 2023: Insights, Use Cases, and Sentiments from 500 Professionals)

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.

The inbox nobody reads is the one that matters

Every organization has a monitoring system that works perfectly and reports to nobody. The gap between having information and acting on it is where most failures actually live.

The best customers are the first ones you turn against

Every subscription makes a bet that most customers won't use what they're paying for. The customer who closes that gap becomes a problem to be managed.

Delegation without comprehension is just prayer

The organizations that survive won't be the ones that automated the most. They'll be the ones that figured out what to stop delegating.

The pitfalls of over-reliance on AI

Discover how over-reliance on AI can hinder decision-making and diminish human skills, leading to missed opportunities and poor outcomes.

Mastering tools like make and Zapier

Unlock efficiency and reduce costs by mastering Make and Zapier to build tailored tech stacks and streamline your business operations.

Researchers extend GPT-4 prompting

Discover how researchers enhance GPT-4's capabilities with innovative prompting techniques, boosting productivity and unlocking new AI potential.