Posted on 2025-06-24 22:26:00+02:00 in blog • Written by Arno Peters
Recently a friend mentioned she needed to write a business plan for her new business. The request was to include a section on financials.
Starting a new business is quite disruptive to the way you spend your time, your money and your energy. It helps to think through some of …
Posted on 2025-06-15 12:00:00+02:00 in blog • Written by Arno Peters
This is a continuation from My Permaculture Journey from 2016 to 2020.
On 2021-01-22 I started visiting and volunteering at Food Forest Eindhoven. At that time, it was one of the few activities I could physically go to due to the restrictions imposed on all of us at the time …
Posted on 2025-06-14 19:00:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design
I was voted into the board of an allotment association in 2019. In response, I created this design draft to help me get a feel for the challenges facing the allotment association at that time.
I abandoned this design when I ended my involvement with the association in 2025 …
Posted on 2025-05-25 22:55:00+02:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • 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 2025-05-14 13:03:00+02:00 in recipes • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with recipe
Quantity: ~2 liter, 6-8 servings
Ingredients:
Extra:
Posted on 2025-05-13 15:45:00+02:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • 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 2025-05-08 19:46:00+02:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • 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 2025-04-19 10:27:00+02:00 in workshop • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with workshop, personal finance, forms of capital
This workshop is currently in the dreaming phase (see Dragon Dreaming). I use this document to collect things I would want to say about the topic of money and personal finance. I appreciate feedback on it. Leave me a message via the contact form.
I see people struggle with …
Posted on 2025-04-05 20:40:00+02:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • 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 2025-04-05 20:12:00+02:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • 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 …