The Whirl of ReOrientation

Strategic clarity for complex systems.

Category: Culture | Philosophy

“The future doesn’t belong to the loudest voice. It belongs to the first person who sees the pattern.”

This isn’t a newsletter.

It’s a field guide for people under fire.

If it feels like the world is spinning, you’re not broken.

You’re disoriented—by design.

The Whirl of ReOrientation exists to give you what collapsing systems fear most:

Strategic clarity.

At the core are the theories of Colonel John Boyd—fighter pilot, strategist and the architect of maneuver warfare.

“You gotta challenge all assumptions—otherwise what becomes doctrine today becomes dogma forever.”

We fuse Boyd’s OODA sketch with the insight of Marshall McLuhan, who saw the war long before it was named:

“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between civilian and military participation.”

That war is here.

You’re already in it.

Who This Is For:

  • Strategic thinkers in business, politics, technology, and media

  • Founders, operators, and parents navigating institutional collapse

  • Leaders under pressure

  • Decision-makers who refuse to be ruled by narratives they didn’t choose

We don’t do ideology.

We do orientation.

We don’t predict the future.

We detect it early.

Once you see the patterns, you can’t unsee them.

And by then—you’ve already won.

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Don’t wait for the narrative to decide for you.

Subscribe now—before the narrative decides for you.

The war is cognitive. This is your weapon.

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Everything depends on Orientation. Rebuild yours now, or be weaponized by someone else’s.

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U.S. Marine, John Boyd strategist, Austrian economics thinker, and Chief Learning Officer at AGLX. I train leaders to dominate VUCA by mastering orientation, disrupting assumptions, and resisting the drift from strategy to stagnant dogma.
Retired U.S. Navy Captain, co-creator of The Flow System, No Way Out podcast producer and co-host, TEDx speaker, and girl dad.