Posted on vr 29 augustus 2025 in tools • Tagged with bookkeeping, ledger-cli, personal finance, flow
Knowing how to Keep the Books is a skill, I believe, everybody would benefit from.
Double-entry accounting simply means that this method accounts for every transaction where the money came from and where it is going. It makes "two entries"!
I highly recommend reading Principles of Accounting with …
Flows manifest in systems in all sorts of ways. Here are some things that can flow:
Posted on zo 25 mei 2025 in tools • Tagged with meditation
A method for grounding yourself and to bring yourself back to the present moment.
Focus your attention one after the other on these things:
This technique brings me rapidly into …
Posted on di 13 mei 2025 in tools • Tagged with permaculture, 4 questions
The Four Questions is an evaluating tool. The four questions are:
Let's expand on each question.
List all the things that went well in your project, presentation, relationship, life or …
Posted on do 08 mei 2025 in tools • Tagged with 6 ways to die, Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps
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 …
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.