I’m Peter Kang. I run agency businesses and love to write about the journey. I also write about investing, books that I’ve found helpful, and ways to live a good life. Check out my bio and my personal mission statement.
Blog Highlights
Below are some highlights from my blog.
Running an agency business:
- Agency Journey, my monthly series on running an agency
- Agency Business Lessons: Distilled and Oversimplified
- Agency Lead Sources and Going Deeper with Each
- Small Agency Owner Compensation
- Calculating Project Profits at a Creative Services Agency
- Exploring Client Concentration in an Agency Business
- The No Exit Approach to Agency Business
- Agency Survival: Handling Challenging Times for the Business
Habits & Life Reflections:
- An Annual Review: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
- Habits That Stuck: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
- Operating Rules Vol. 1, Vol. 2
- Lessons from Atomic Habits by James Clear
Personal finance & investing:
- My Personal Finance Snapshot: November 2023, August 2022, June 2021
- My Personal Finance Stack: 2020, 2019, 2017, 2015
- Stock Investing: A Look at My Portfolio
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:
I keep track of books I’ve finished on my Reading List.
- 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
Elsewhere
- AgencyHabits: A resource for agency leaders