Arno Peters Blog

Survey Arno’s life

Posted on 2026-04-27 21:38 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design, dreaming circle, vision, mission, 9 ways of observing, thinking in patterns, Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps, Integrated Needs Analysis Matrix, 6 ways to die, forms of capital, bookkeeping, personal finance

This survey is part of Arno’s design for his life. This is a living document. The first version of this survey came about in 2018. In 2026 I reviewed and updated it.

Vision and mission

I created the vision and mission in 2018 using a dreaming circle.

Key words …

Bookkeeping

Posted on 2025-08-29 20:00 in tools • Modified on 2025-11-11 11:10 • Written by Arno Peters • 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

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 …

Using Ledger-cli for joint finances

Posted on 2025-07-24 19:25 in blog • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with ledger-cli, personal finance, bookkeeping

I have been using ledger-cli since 2015. At first only for my personal finances. To make it easier for myself, I use the CSV files I download from the bank and convert these into ledger-cli transaction files.

Later I incorporated my business records as well. I use a Python script …

Workshop Financial Know How

Posted on 2025-04-19 10:27 in workshop • Modified on 2026-01-28 16:06 • 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.

Background

I see people struggle with …