On the Bubble

Empathy Is a Strategic Capacity

It enables worldbuilding where time and value are not yet fixed, providing a path to product–market fit before markets, metrics, or demand signals exist.

Detail, The Good Samaritan (after Delacroix), 1890, by Vincent van Gogh, oil on canvas, Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands.

Mid-century travel-poster illustration: first-person view across a grass tennis court, a single closed book resting on the near sideline, citrine sunlight and an open teal sky, no people.

Thinking in Systems

Donella Meadows built an exquisite analytical toolkit, then told us exactly where its utility ends. The future can only be envisioned, not analyzed.

Mid-century illustration from a lake dock: three stacked books in the foreground, two citrine canoes on still water, and a row of yellow canvas tents among pines across the shore.

Circularity Summer Camp

The founding texts of circularity — Benyus, McDonough & Braungart, and Stahel — read together. Three merit badges earned, and one still on the table.

Mid-century travel-poster illustration of a New England beach from the reader's view: a single navy book on pale sand, a small sloop on the teal sea, a robin's egg blue sky.

The Circular Economy: A User's Guide

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.

A gouache of an Edwardian country-house lawn: a round mid-century theater rotunda rises over the grass, dwarfing the empty wicker chairs and tea table; a manor in the distance.

The Carousel of Plenty

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.

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Thinking in Systems

Circularity Summer Camp

The Circular Economy: A User's Guide

The Carousel of Plenty