Summer Reading 2026
Christopher Alexander built a language for making places that serve human needs beautifully and economically. It doubles as a manual for choosing well where no data exists — the exact position circularity strategists occupy today.
Summer Reading 2026
Lean's founding text by Taiichi Ohno shows that the most celebrated efficiency revolution in business history was circular from the start — and hands circularity transformation its strongest precedent.
Summer Reading 2026
Clayton Christensen’s iconic analysis reveals why well-run companies at the peak of their powers are routinely vulnerable to disruption. We examine his thesis through the lens of circularity disruption.
Summer Reading 2026
Strategy is a choice, so you might as well choose to win. For circularity leaders, the framework offers an opportunity and a moment of truth.
Summer Reading 2026
Two esteemed points of view on the nature of progress, how it applies to strategy, and what it means for circularity transformation.
Summer Reading 2026
The summer reading series arrives at the wellspring: Jay Wright Forrester's 1961 book, the bedrock beneath circularity's systems thinking.
Systems Dynamics
Donella Meadows built an exquisite analytical toolkit, then told us exactly where its utility ends. The future can only be envisioned, not analyzed.
The Circular Century's symbol: an autonomous vehicle that delivers what you need and retrieves what you're done with. One stop. Both ways.
Personal sovereignty in energy, attention, time, and your relationship with things. The Circular Century is a New Deal you can acquire for yourself — the full inheritance of a surplus you were always owed.
When institutions produce the chaos, order becomes the rebellion. The punks of 2026 don't sneer. They say "no thank you" and build something without you.
Why do rigidly managed systems so often end in decay? A closer look at enshittification, linear logic, and why this moment calls for leadership.
Circular economy transformation through systematic synthesis. Circudynamics integrates strategy, worldbuilding, technology, culture, and craft. Subscribe to The Circudyne Letter.
The founding texts of circularity — Benyus, McDonough & Braungart, and Stahel — read together. Three merit badges earned, and one still on the table.
The summer reading season opens with Walter Stahel's introductory text — a book that reaches for what's still missing: a longing for the circular economy.
The season's real subject turned out to be the good life — and the kind of luxury that comes from a better place than scarcity.
Clarke said that whether or not we are alone in the universe, the prospect is terrifying. This season's final letter asks what would make us worthy of the answer.
Every age of plenty before this one was fleeting — squandered by an economy that profits from more. The Circular Century is the first abundance built to stay. Which leaves only the question of how to cope with it.
The right vehicle for every trip, owned by no one in particular — how the Circular Century unbundles mobility from the car in the driveway.
What if the best place in town were the one we all went to? The Commissary is the Automat reborn — good food made special, and within everyone's reach.
What if your wardrobe just got better instead of bigger? The Curated Wardrobe is clothier as tailor at scale — so anyone can dress smart.
The performance economy comes home.
A device fitted to you on your first day of school, that grows with you across a lifetime. What consumer electronics looks like when it lasts.
The household has been at the far end of a long fragile string for a century. Energy sovereignty is the move out. Solarpunk 2.0, and the triad that builds it.
How it feels to live in a home that gets better with time, and what it takes to make one. Why the dwelling is the test case for better living with circularity.