Posted on do 08 mei 2025 in tools • Tagged with ways to die, Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps
Six ways to die (6WTD) is a tool proposed by Vinay Gupta to help individuals and groups quickly identify urgent needs of individuals in a crisis. It explains what basic infrastructure needs to be in place for people to survive to the next day.
The six ways to die are …
Posted on za 05 april 2025 in tools • Tagged with saving rate, safe withdrawal rate, burn rate, life energy
Add together all your bank accounts, investment accounts, retirement accounts (if you can access them), estimates on the value of your house.
Then subtract any debts, mortgages and other financial obligations from that.
Take your employers payment slip from the last year …
Posted on za 05 april 2025 in tools • Tagged with OODA, permaculture, Holmgren principles
OODA is an abbreviation for the words: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. Developed and taught by John Boyd, a US military pilot, as a mental model for training other pilots.
Observe is about overseeing the whole, everything, facts and emotions, the different players and their (apparent) motives, culture and history and …
Posted on wo 29 januari 2025 in tools • Tagged with permaculture, practical
We created this biochar cooker during the second week of my first PDC. It is made from two large drums and one smaller can.
Posted on do 16 januari 2025 in tools
Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises, or TRE for short, is a simple way to relax the body and shake out tensions. It uses the natural shaking mechanism present in every mammal for getting rid of tension.
Start by laying on the ground on a mat. Pull your legs up and …
Posted on vr 31 mei 2024 in tools • Tagged with thinking in patterns
Some of the patterns most businesses will face at some point.
Posted on vr 15 december 2023 in tools • Tagged with zones and sectors
Zones in permaculture is a concept for roughly categorizing areas according to ease and/or frequency of access.
| 00: | Your own body. |
|---|---|
| 0: | The base of operations under consideration. |
| 1: | Offers easy, quick access but not as immediate as zone 0. |
| 2: | Somewhat more involved access. Still regularly visited. |
| 3 … |
Posted on vr 15 december 2023 in tools • Tagged with shadow work
This is a type of shadow work. It helped me tremendously and I am thankful for having found these through the writings of John Michael Greer. He published the teachings starting in July 2021.
Back then, he wrote:
Spiritual alchemy begins with the transmutation of the emotional life. This is …
Posted on wo 13 september 2023 in tools • Tagged with bullet journaling, feedback, year compass, web of goals
I use periodic reviews in order to keep track of the main currents in my life. The day to day is too chaotic to discern much structure. Looking back over longer periods of time teases these patterns out in the open. It's similar to canoeing in a white water river …
Posted on do 25 mei 2023 in tools • Tagged with design web
Looby Macnamara's Design Web is a design process. You can read about it in her book People & Permaculture. I resonate with using its anchor points and allowing jumping between points as questions come up and get answered.
The tool gives 12 different anchor points to use as a starting point …