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An Experiment in ‚Time Gating‘: My Method for Protecting Deep Work Blocks from Internal Requests
Last Tuesday, I had a three-hour block marked „Strategic Planning“ on my calendar.…
Designing My ‚Information Firewall‘: A System for Filtering Inputs Before They Consume Attention
This week, my primary development focus wasn’t on a production line at JvG…
Project Note: Automating the First Response and Calibrating AI Empathy
A support ticket came in last week for our saddle brand, Iberosattel. The…
My Personal ‚After-Action Review‘ Process for When a System Breaks Down
Last Tuesday was a write-off. I started the day with one clear, high-priority…
A Note on My Quarterly ‚System Reset‘: Realigning Goals Across JvG, Mehrklicks, and Iberosattel
My Quarterly ‚System Reset‘: Realigning Goals Across JvG, Mehrklicks, and Iberosattel The end…
The ‚Idea Ingestion Engine‘: My Process for Routing Spontaneous Thoughts into Actionable Buckets
I was midway through a drive to one of our JvG Technology facilities…
Project Update: Building a ‚Default Action‘ Matrix to Automate Routine Decisions
It was a Tuesday afternoon when I realized something was wrong. The question…
My Context-Switching Protocol: A System for Shifting Between B2B Engineering and D2C E-commerce
This morning, I spent an hour on a call with our JvG Technology…
The ‚Idea Capture to Action‘ Workflow: My System for Ensuring No Good Insight Is Lost
I was halfway through a run, listening to a podcast on logistics systems,…
My Personal System Audit: How I Track Energy and Prevent Burnout
There’s a unique irony in spending your days designing scalable systems for businesses,…
A Note on the Information Flow Within My Personal Knowledge Management System
The Information Flow Within My Personal Knowledge Management System It’s a familiar feeling…
My ‚Context-Switching Ritual‘: The 15-Minute Buffer System I Use Between Projects
The 15-Minute ‚Context-Switching‘ Ritual That Unlocks Hours of Deep Work It’s 10:59 AM.…
Project Log: Building a ‚Signal vs. Noise‘ Filter for My Daily Information Diet
My 3-Step Blueprint for Building a Ruthless ‚Signal vs. Noise‘ Filter It started…
Anatomy of a Silent Failure: Our Lead Nurturing Sequence Broke, and We Didn’t Notice for 7 Days
There’s a particular kind of quiet that’s more unsettling than a loud alarm:…
My ‚Time-Gating‘ Framework: A System for Protecting Deep Work and Strategic Thinking
I was looking at my calendar last week and noticed a familiar pattern.…
The Anatomy of My ‚CEO’s Weekly Review‘: A System for Syncing Multiple Ventures
The 4-Pillar CEO Review: My Weekly System for Syncing Multiple Ventures Every week…
Note: When Automation Creates More Work
When Automation Creates More Work, Not Less This week, I spent Tuesday morning…
The Automation Deadlock: How We Solved a Process That Required Two Separate Systems to ‚Wait‘ for a Human Decision
The Automation Deadlock: A Framework for Unsticking Cross-System Workflows I was looking at…
Project Update: Using an LLM to Co-Author Technical Documentation
At JvG Technology, the biggest bottleneck in our engineering projects isn’t the engineering…
Defining the Hand-Off: A Framework for Triaging High-Value Leads from Automation to a Human Sales Rep
One of the most expensive resources in any business is a salesperson’s time.…
My ‚Red Flag‘ Dashboard: Building a Human Oversight System for Automated Ad Spend
I’ve learned that complete trust in any automated system is a fast track…
The Circuit Breaker Principle: A Lesson in Resilient Automation
It was 3 AM when the alert hit my phone. A high-priority lead…
Calibrating an AI’s Tone: An Experiment in Maintaining the Iberosattel Brand Voice
From Robot to Craftsman: How We Taught an AI to Speak Our Brand…
Building ‚Glass Boxes,‘ Not ‚Black Boxes‘: How We Document and Visualize Our Automated Decisions
I’ve found that one of the most common failure points in a growing…
My Principle of ‚Reversible Automation‘: Designing Workflows That Can Be Switched to Manual Instantly
I was watching a new automated sorting system we’d implemented at one of…
Anatomy of a Failure: The Day Our Lead-Routing Logic Sent 100 High-Value Inquiries into a Black Hole
It started with a quiet week. Too quiet. The hum of new, high-value…
A Note on ‚Automation Blindness‘: How We Restructured a Reporting Workflow to Encourage Human Curiosity
Overcoming ‚Automation Blindness‘: How We Redesigned a Reporting Workflow to Spark Human Curiosity…
The Anomaly Dashboard: The Simple System I Built to Supervise Our Automated Marketing Funnels
I once had an automated email sequence that ran perfectly for six months.…
Project Log: Training a Custom GPT to Draft Technical Sales Proposals
It started with a simple observation. I noticed that some of our most…
Defining the ‚Handover Point‘: The Exact Moment Our Automated Onboarding System Triggers a Human Check-in
The most important part of our automation isn’t what it does; it’s when…
