Circudyne
Circudyne
The art and science of circular transformation
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Circudyne

Imagination

Three peasant women bend over a harvested field, quietly gathering what the system left behind. The establishment's surplus towers in the background. They don't look up. They don't need to.
Rebellion

Are You a Punk?

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.
Mary Cassatt's "Young Mother Sewing" (1900): a child leans into her mother's lap with total trust while the mother calmly continues her work, absorbing the contact without interruption.
Reassurance

Reassurance is a Strategic Capacity

The performance economy, at its best, creates the conditions for play. At its worst, it creates the conditions for vigilance.
Tiny figures lost in Piranesi's impossible prison of arches and stairs—architecture so vast and self-referential that individual optimization becomes meaningless.
On the Bubble

Transformative Ends, Incremental Means?

The era of incremental change is rapidly coming to a close
Vincent van Gogh’s The Good Samaritan (after Delacroix), showing a compassionate figure helping a wounded man onto a horse, rendered in expressive brushwork.
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.
A painterly parody of Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” reimagined with stylized, hand-painted symbols of decay replacing the river’s ice floes as the boat moves forward.
On the Bubble

Leadership in the Time of Enshittification

Why do rigidly managed systems so often end in decay? A closer look at enshittification, linear logic, and why this moment calls for leadership.
A Van Gogh–style portrait of Joseph Campbell set against swirling cosmic colors in blues, greens, magentas, teals, and citrine yellow, suggesting shifting cosmology and mythic meaning.
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.
Glowing Edison bulb surrounded by scattered sketches and technical drawings on wooden table - Edison's 'pile of junk' where imagination becomes invention
Imagination

Toward Imagination

Scientific management made imagination possible. Then it made imagination impossible.