The Dreaming Circle is a process for elucidating a vision. A vision puts a dot on the horizon of where you would like to end up. A vision can be for a project, for a company, for your life, for a partnership.

Creating a vision statement has a few aims …

This analysis is a way to track different flows across our systems and how the output flow of one element can be used as the input flow to another element in our system.

Every output stream that is not matched to an input is a waste stream and becomes pollution …

I have designed our haybox in 2019. Over time I streamlined the use of our haybox. This page documents the current (2025) way we use the haybox.

First put rice and salted water to a boil. Take one part rice to two parts water. Put on the lid and let …

Knowing how to Keep the Books is a skill, I believe, everybody would benefit from.

Flows manifest in systems in all sorts of ways. Here are some things that can flow:

• wind — a gentil breeze or a fierce hurricane;
• running water — streams, rivers, flooding;
• sand — shifting dunes or mudslides;
• oil/fuel — routes of oil tankers, within refineries, distribution across fueling stations;
• electrons — within an electrical …

A method for grounding yourself and to bring yourself back to the present moment.

Focus your attention one after the other on these things:

• 5 things you SEE
• 4 things you HEAR
• 3 things you TOUCH
• 2 things you SMELL
• 1 thing you TASTE

This technique brings me rapidly into …

The Four Questions is an evaluating tool. The four questions are:

• What went well?
• What would I do differently?
• What is my vision?
• What is my next step?

Let's expand on each question.

The 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 …

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 …