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 …

Let me shed a little light on how I record, track, and plot various streams across my domain.

I have a git repository that holds my records. I clone this repo across the various machines I use. It contains records pertaining to the flows of: money, energy, water, CO₂ and …

This is the place we gather information about the project. See the design overview for the big picture.

Loes and Brand are hereafter referred to as the parents.