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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…
Human + Automation: A Logbook on Judgment, Not Tools
I’ve noticed the conversation around AI in business is missing the point. It’s…
Designing My Personal OS: The System That Runs the System-Builder
For most founders, the statistics are an all-too-familiar reality. Research shows that 72%…
Brand as a System: A Founder’s Field Guide to a Living, Breathing Brand OS
A few years ago, I reviewed a proposal from our marketing team at…
Why I Treat Attention Like Capital
This week, I spent 45 minutes on an email thread about a minor…
Project Log: Reviving Photovoltaik.info — A System for Organic Growth
When we reactivated Photovoltaik.info, the domain had been dormant for over five years.…
Project Log: Building the Iberosattel Growth Engine
When we began structuring the digital system for Iberosattel.de, a premium German saddle…
Project: JvG-Thoma – A Living Logbook for Building an Industrial Brand
Most marketing case studies feel like they were written after the fact—because they…
Project Log: Building PvKnowHow – A System for Solar Intelligence
When I started mapping out PvKnowHow, the goal was deceptively simple: create a…
