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Two overlapping rectangles: green with play symbol and red with pause symbol. Illustrates the ME/CFS pacing tool concept.
6 min read

Pacing with ME/CFS: Why I built a small tool that promises nothing

A friend I had not spoken to in five years calls me in tears. Someone in her family can barely tolerate light. ME/CFS. Severely affected. I am not a doctor, but I can build a tool. So I did.

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Abstract balance scale with a leaf silhouette (nature) and circuit grid (AI), connected by an orange fulcrum as a symbol for the tension between loving nature and using AI.
5 min read

I love nature and use AI every day. How I live with that tension.

I donate to climate projects, I am involved in the Klimakino, and I burn through AI every day for my work. That is a contradiction. I don't solve it with nice words, I solve it by measuring my AI footprint and putting it in the open.

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Felix Degeler in a consulting conversation with a tablet.
4 min read

The generalist is the GP of the business world

“Generalist” almost sounds like an insult in business. In medicine the same role is called a GP, and nobody would dream of abolishing it.

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Felix Degeler on a train, looking out the window at the sea.
3 min read

It's not the delay that annoys, it's the missing info

Delays are rarely the real problem. The problem is a system that has the information but shares it too late. In projects it's the same: missing transparency does more harm than the error itself.

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Felix Degeler with the line "I'm 3x faster than you" and a Wispr Flow stats overlay (109 words per minute dictated).
4 min read

Dictate instead of type: three times faster to better AI results

Typing loses context on the way from head to keyboard. And context is the most important currency for AI. Dictating isn't just faster, it gives the AI far more to work with.

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DC illustration: a circle as a system with an orange crack, the system at its breaking point.
3 min read

The one system we're driving into the wall with eyes wide open

As a consultant I'm paid to save systems. We intervene immediately at any inefficiency in a company. Only with our life foundation do we accept destruction no business plan would survive.

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DC illustration: an orange core block delegating via arrows to three output boxes, AI as a system, not a chatbot.
5 min read

AI-powered work isn't a chatbot, it's a system

There's a vast gap between “using AI” and “working AI-powered.” One is a smart encyclopedia. The other treats AI like a digital employee you actually manage.

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DC illustration: a crossed-out stack of slides next to a tool, execution over presentation.
4 min read

Why I don't build slide decks as a consultant

Most consultancies deliver slide decks. I don't, on principle. Real consulting ends in execution, not in a deck that disappears into a folder afterwards.

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Felix Degeler walking down a bright corridor with an event lanyard.
4 min read

From question machine to sparring partner: using AI properly

If you only ask AI questions, you use a fraction of its potential. The lever is a three-step move: spar first, then research, then execute in agent mode.

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DC illustration: a stacked block whose top orange segment is given away, impact over revenue.
3 min read

Why 10% of profit always goes away

Revenue and profit matter, but they aren't the most important number. We measure success by impact: building things that last and giving a share to where it's needed.

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DC illustration: an orange arrow breaking out of a static dashed frame, movement over standstill.
3 min read

Standing still is the real enemy, not change

Change feels like risk but is the normal state. The real enemy is standing still: clinging to the comfort zone while everything around you keeps moving.

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DC illustration: a minimal clock with an orange hand, speed through clarity.
4 min read

The clock doesn't lie: speed is a question of clarity

In motorsport the lap time counts, not the excuse. In a project it's the same: speed comes from clarity, timing and the courage to drop ballast, never from rushing.

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DC illustration: a long timeline with a distant orange horizon marker, thinking in decades.
3 min read

Plan in decades, not in quarters

I plan to live to 115. That sounds crazy, but it's a tool: thinking in decades leads to different decisions than chasing the next quarter.

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Felix Degeler, black-and-white portrait during a talk.
4 min read

Single Point of Truth: Why your AI hallucinates without one

Feed your AI every document from the last ten years and you build a hallucination machine. The fix is unglamorous: one single, living master document per topic.

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Felix Degeler working on a laptop in the garden, home office outdoors.
3 min read

Cutting home office is a vote of no confidence

More and more companies are pulling people back into the office. That signals control over trust, and good talent goes where output counts, not attendance.

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DC illustration: a checklist with ticks, the last one orange, auto-created and human-reviewed.
3 min read

Nobody here writes meeting notes anymore

Notes and to-dos from meetings happen automatically here: transcribe, create tasks, file them in the project hub. The human only reviews instead of writing along.

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Felix Degeler at his desk, the Degeler Consulting website on the laptop.
3 min read

Human in the loop: just because you can automate something

AI could fully take over emails, offers and posts. But it shouldn't. AI does the 90% legwork, the last 10% belong to the human: quality, nuance, decision.

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DC illustration: a circle of equally sized dots, one in orange, every voice counts.
4 min read

The meeting rule 90% of companies ignore

In most meetings the loud ones dominate and the quiet ones disappear. Sociocracy flips that: everyone speaks, roles are assigned rather than fought over, decisions get made instead of talked to death.

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Felix Degeler working on a laptop on a rock outdoors.
3 min read

Why projects fall asleep after the kickoff

Great kickoff, everyone on fire, tasks assigned. And then nothing happens. The reason is rarely a lack of skill, it's a lack of ownership. The saving question isn't "who's to blame?" but "who does it now?".

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DC illustration: a spotlight cone on an orange block on a stage line, the stage as an advantage.
3 min read

What the stage taught me as a consultant

For years I thought my acting past didn't belong on a CV. Today it's my unfair advantage in consulting, because the most important skills came from the stage.

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Felix Degeler with a laptop surrounded by chat messages and the answer "Notion".
3 min read

One place for the project status, not four open tabs

Four tabs open, three tools searched, and still no idea where the current status is. The problem isn't the tool, it's that there's no single place for it.

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Week grid of five columns: three full meeting days with appointment blocks in black and two clean orange focus columns as a symbol for protected time instead of a full calendar.
4 min read

Time management isn't a calendar problem, it's a system problem

A full calendar doesn't mean you get a lot done. What helps is fixed meeting days, protected focus time, and a system that decides what is even allowed into the calendar in the first place.

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Felix Degeler in a DC hoodie, on the phone outdoors.
3 min read

Why we threw out a tool that looked perfect on paper

A tool with perfect integration is worthless if it slows you down day-to-day. Why we switched time tracking from everhour to Toggl, and what that says about tool decisions.

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