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Micha van Amsterdam
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Aug 17, 2021

A Gardener’s Manifesto: Start a Garden Today

Dig the earth, reconnect with nature, and trigger positive change. — I’ve made it into a habit to take a little stroll in my backyard every day. From the backdoor, I’ll take a trampled footpath that leads to the chicken pasture. I’ll pass through the vegetable patch and the orchard next to it, checking the health and conditions of the crops…

Sustainability

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A Gardener’s Manifesto: Start a Garden Today
A Gardener’s Manifesto: Start a Garden Today
Sustainability

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Climate Conscious

·Jun 4, 2021

Why We Need Limits Not Growth

The connection between unlimited growth, earth exploitation, and the key to a happy life. — We’re addicted to growth. We want to grow as persons. We want to grow our knowledge and grow our skillset. We want to grow in our endeavors and grow our businesses. We feel that this is the right thing to do. Growth seems natural. Imagine a seed that slowly germinates…

Sustainability

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Why We Need Limits Not Growth
Why We Need Limits Not Growth
Sustainability

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Writers’ Blokke

·May 24, 2021

Long-Term Strategies for Becoming a Better Writer

Why publishing every day probably isn’t the best idea and other insights I learned from Umberto Eco. — Write every day, don’t publish every day I truly believe that writing daily is the most important factor in mastering the art of writing. As I explained in a previous article, as an aspiring writer the key to success lies in an initial high effort. …

Writing

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Long-Term Strategies for Becoming a Better Writer
Long-Term Strategies for Becoming a Better Writer
Writing

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Be Unique

·May 20, 2021

That Time I Tried to Grasp the Concept of Time

And why it’s about time to start living in the now. — Isn’t it weird that the moment seems to be forever forgotten in this age of eternal progression and instant speed? Too often it feels that this perpetual motion machine called time is almost impossible to stop. Nevertheless, the past always seems to catch up, with its tricky ways of luring…

Philosophy

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That Time I Tried to Grasp the Concept of Time
That Time I Tried to Grasp the Concept of Time
Philosophy

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Climate Conscious

·May 18, 2021

Reclaiming the Seasons and Living off the Land

A guide to living seasonally and in harmony with the natural cycles of the Earth — A few years ago, we had an unseen hot and dry summer that somehow managed to directly shift into a wet yet mild winter. This upset me. What happened to autumn? There’s no point in denying it: the concept of the four seasons as we know them is slowly vanishing…

Sustainability

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Reclaiming the Seasons and Living off the Land
Reclaiming the Seasons and Living off the Land
Sustainability

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Writers’ Blokke

·May 14, 2021

Maximizing the Return on Effort

A short guide to time management, generalism, and the importance of initial effort. — I love to do tons of stuff. I admit it, I just have too many interests. First of all, there is writing. Then there’s also making music, homesteading, gardening and of course family time. Oh yes, there’s also this part-time job, and my small freelance business making videos. …

Writing

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Maximizing the Return on Effort
Maximizing the Return on Effort
Writing

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Climate Conscious

·May 6, 2021

How To Reconcile Our Beliefs and Our Actions

Reduce your needs, embrace limits and discover true beauty. — Basically, we’re all walking contradictions. For example: right now, as I write these words, I’m sitting in the cozy comfort of my centrally heated living room, surrounded by modern technology. It almost feels sacrilegious to criticize this high living standard we take for granted. …

Sustainability

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How To Reconcile Our Beliefs and Our Actions
How To Reconcile Our Beliefs and Our Actions
Sustainability

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Writers’ Blokke

·May 6, 2021

How to Increase your Financial Resilience

A permacultural view on personal economics. — “Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.” Henry Hazlitt — Economics In One Lesson I have this strange tendency to connect everything I do to nature. That’s not so hard of course, as I do tend to spend the majority of my free…

Personal Finance

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How to Increase your Financial Resilience
How to Increase your Financial Resilience
Personal Finance

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Writers’ Blokke

·Apr 29, 2021

The importance of inspiration, idea, and concept

What I learned from Jorge Luis Borges, one of my all-time favorite writers. — I believe that one of the prime ways to be inspired is to read a lot. That’s why I like how Medium works. It feels somewhat like the YouTube of the written word. I can easily switch between topics, publications, ideas, and content of all sorts, lose track of time…

Writing

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The importance of inspiration, idea, and concept
The importance of inspiration, idea, and concept
Writing

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Regenerative Finance

·Apr 28, 2021

Some Advice on Wealth

Forget money, do less and be more like a tree The other day I was taking a stroll through our little patch of land; a newly grown forest we planted in winter. It’s a somewhat melancholic feeling to understand that these young alders, ashes, cherries, and oaks will easily outlive…

Life Lessons

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Some Advice on Wealth
Some Advice on Wealth
Life Lessons

4 min read

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Micha van Amsterdam

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Simple, sustainable lifestyle design, self-sufficiency and local, perennial culture.

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