Circular Fundamentals
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.
Connection
Cultural resonance domain of Circudynamics focused on human adoption and liberal arts wisdom. Understands how communities actually adopt change through relationships, stories, and shared meaning. Uses cultural intelligence, mythological analysis, and relationship mapping to ensure transformation honors human values and creates genuine community rather than imposed compliance.
Automat
The Commissary
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.
Carousel of Plenty
The Curated Wardrobe
What if your wardrobe just got better instead of bigger? The Curated Wardrobe is clothier as tailor at scale — so anyone can dress smart.
New Deal
A New Deal You Can Acquire For Yourself
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.
On the Bubble
Why Self-Disrupt?
The environmental imperative is the reason to begin. This is about why you'll be glad you did it. Have to versus get to. Part I of a two-part conclusion.
Future Proofing
Vendor Dependency and the Loveless Long-Term Relationship
In a performance economy, the product is a vessel. The software is the spirit. What happens when the spirit departs?
Diplomacy
From Managers to Diplomats
Managing within a system in decline is a form of denial.
Connection
You Don't Need Better Storytellers
Stories begin with choices. Without internal coherence, even the best storytelling can’t help us imagine, or choose, the future we need.
Perfect Days
"Something Goes Wrong!"
We’ve absorbed decades of stories that teach us to wait for the break: build a world, then watch it fall, because “something goes wrong!” is where the meaning begins. Tales of the Circular Century require a different rhythm. “Perfect Days” reveals the quiet power of a world that holds.
Cultural Mythology
Closing the Mythology Gap
When the world changes faster than our stories, organizations lose coherence and momentum. This Letter shows how Joseph Campbell, George Lucas, and Coca-Cola demonstrated the deeper work of cultural renewal — and what it means to become fit for purpose in the Circular Century.
Dunkirk
Dunkirk Spirit and Circular Transformation
Like the Royal Navy at Dunkirk, today's corporations are unfit for the task. Circular transformation needs 1,000 small boats, not one big ship. What's yours?
Imagination
Toward Imagination
Scientific management made imagination possible. Then it made imagination impossible.