Posted on 2026-05-15 22:22 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with web of goals
Web of Goals is a technique proposed by Jacob Lund Fisker. It tries to map out a set of goals in a holistic way. Because for every goal we choose, there are consequences — positive and negative.
For this technique, we create fish bone diagrams for each of our goals where …
Posted on 2026-05-07 19:27 in blog • Written by Arno Peters
Chris Williams and Mark Manson summarize the most important lessons of therapy. The first seven are read by Chris to Mark in the video, the eighth comes from one of the comments below the video.
It is good, solid advice worth repeating from time to time to keep it top …
Posted on 2026-04-27 21:39 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design, CEAP, ikigai, ethics, attitudinal principles, Holmgren principles, web of goals, early retirement extreme
This is a permaculture design design for my life. It is a living document. This page documents the process and the design. The first version came about in 2018, in 2026 I reviewed and updated it.
For this design I use CEAP as the design process. It is simply:
Posted on 2026-04-27 21:38 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design, dreaming circle, vision, mission, 9 ways of observing, thinking in patterns, Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps, Integrated Needs Analysis Matrix, 6 ways to die, forms of capital, bookkeeping, personal finance
This survey is part of Arno’s design for his life. This is a living document. The first version of this survey came about in 2018. In 2026 I reviewed and updated it.
I created the vision and mission in 2018 using a dreaming circle.
Key words …
Posted on 2026-03-15 13:49 in blog • Written by Arno Peters
The book iPermie! from Bob Waldrop had a website associated with it: https://ipermie.net. After his death, the site dropped off the internet.
As often happens with domains that have gained some weight with the search engines, the domain got licensed again, and again as I found in the …
Posted on 2026-03-05 11:57 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, Holmgren principles
In addition to the Permaculture Ethics, David Holmgren’s list of 12 design principles shows us helpful ways to think about our systems.
Posted on 2026-01-08 14:30 in blog • Written by Arno Peters
The Cactus Lens: A Clearer View
Until recently there have been 3 main lenses through which to view our overshoot predicament: debt, energy, and ecology.
Each lens exposes a different aspect of the picture, but not the complete picture.
Each lens …
Posted on 2025-11-07 15:00 in blog • Modified on 2026-02-19 14:55 • Written by Arno Peters
I came across this book when I was looking into the writings of Bob Waldrop. He was a Permaculture Designer living in Oklahoma City. He created a set of flyers called the Better Times Emergency Notes, which I republished on this site. He passed away in 2019.
In 2013 he …
Posted on 2025-11-04 15:31 in blog • Modified on 2026-03-31 20:59 • Written by Arno Peters
I found these flyers a while ago and filed their location away in my archive. I recently came across them again and discovered the original website had vanished. Its creator, Bob Waldrop, has passed away in 2019.
Because the information contained in the flyers is helpful and compact, I wanted …
Posted on 2025-10-27 14:57 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, attitudinal principles
This is a reformulation of the principles Bill Mollison used:
This principle asks us to look at how every element of our …