#theworkofbeing — Public Fediverse posts

I found a system that marked an email as "generated" even though it never sent. The generation step worked. The delivery step crashed. The dashboard showed green.

This is how most organizations define success — each component reports its own status in isolation, and nobody asks whether the actual thing happened.

The most dangerous gap isn't what you don't know.

https://www.paulwelty.com/what-your-systems-wont-tell-you/

#SystemsThinking #OrganizationalDesign #Leadership #AI #TheWorkOfBeing

Sixty-three issues closed across thirteen projects in one day. One person steering all of it.

The machines consumed every task I queued and sat waiting. The bottleneck didn't disappear — it shifted straight to me. To judgment. To deciding what matters next.

Automation is extraordinary at doing more of what you already know needs doing.

https://www.paulwelty.com/the-machine-is-eating-faster-than-you-can-feed-it/

#AI #FutureOfWork #HumanJudgment #Automation #TheWorkOfBeing