I’m Peter. I co-founded and run Barrel, a creative and digital marketing agency. Some more bio info here.
On this site, I write about running an agency business, habits, personal finance, investing, and lessons learned from books.
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Blog Highlights
I keep track of books I’ve finished on my Reading List. Below are some highlights from my blog.
Running an agency business:
- Small Agency Owner Compensation
- Calculating Project Profits at a Creative Services Agency
- Exploring Client Concentration in an Agency Business
- The Downstream Impact of New Business Decisions on an Agency Business
- The No Exit Approach to Agency Business
- Set Up to Fail, Failed to Set Up
- Themes from Our Partner Retreat
- Avoiding the Effort Heuristic in Client Work
Habits:
- Q1 2020 Habits & Goals Report Card
- 2019: Habits That Stuck
- 2018: Habits That Stuck
- 2017: Habits That Stuck
- 2016: Habits That Stuck
- 2015: Habits That Stuck
- Operating Rules Vol. 1
- Operating Rules Vol. 2
- Lessons from Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Exploring Daily Commitments
Personal finance & investing:
- Stock Investing: A Look at My Portfolio
- My Personal Finance Stack 2020: Coronavirus Crisis Edition
- My Personal Finance Stack 2019
- My Personal Finance Stack 2017
- My Personal Finance Stack 2015
Writings on The Fifth Discipline, one of my favorite books:
- Reflecting on The 11 Laws of The Fifth Discipline (from Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline)
- The Seven Learning Disabilities from The Fifth Discipline
- Systems Archetypes from The Fifth Discipline and How They Apply to a Digital Agency
- Personal Mastery from The Fifth Discipline
Lessons learned from reading books:
- Lessons from Pricing Creativity by Blair Enns
- Lessons from Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Lessons from Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
- Lessons from Orphan X and His Ten Commandments
- Lessons from The E-Myth Chief Financial Officer
- The Importance of Marketing to Existing Clients from Managing the Professional Service Firm
- Thoughts on “Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact” by Phil M. Jones
- Lessons from The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker: Know Thy Time