The Second Big Circulation: Bridging People, Cities, and Ideas

As I sit at JFK Airport, preparing to board my flight to San Francisco, I’m reminded of a journey I took in 2017—a journey that spanned continents and culminated in a seven-night transatlantic cruise back to New York. That voyage marked what I now call my First Big Circulation. At the time, I hosted a few gatherings and attended Frankfurter Buchmesse, trying to find alignment between ideas and people across cities. It was exploratory. Personal. Experimental.

Today, I depart once again—this time with purpose and platforms. I call this next chapter The Second Big Circulation, a curated journey through San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, London, Valencia, Paris, and Amsterdam, before returning to New York. This time, it’s not just about where I go, but who I connect—and why.

From Movement to Mission

Unlike the first circulation, I now carry with me two vessels of meaning:

1. BigC.Works, an action-driven magazine designed to explore and amplify themes that begin with the letter “C”—City, Culture, Connection, Career, Co-creation, and more.

2. The AtoA Table, a roundtable experience I co-host in each city with local contributors, connectors, and collaborators. These aren’t just meetings—they are moments of shared purpose, where global perspectives meet local insight.

At its core, the Second Big Circulation is a mission of trust-building. I still believe in face-to-face meetings as the essential foundation for meaningful virtual collaboration. The handshake matters. So does the shared coffee, the city walk, the unplanned conversation. These are the rituals that unlock deeper cooperation.

Why the Human Bridge Matters Now

We live in an era overwhelmed by AI-generated content, misinformation, and digital noise. In the startup world, and especially in global business expansion, these layers of confusion can be dangerous. Background checks, due diligence, and real-world validation are more critical than ever—but paradoxically, more difficult to access. Long flight times, cultural barriers, and the flood of online noise prevent many from getting a clear read on what’s real.

That’s why I call this a Big Human Circulation—because what’s missing in this age of synthetic content is human context and credibility. My presence in each city acts as a form of genuine verification. I don’t just observe—I sit with people, walk the streets, visit offices, and sense what’s grounded in reality. My circulation is a markup system: a live audit of what’s real, what’s emerging, and what’s trustworthy.

In this way, being a human bridge isn’t symbolic—it’s operational. It’s how we protect trust, elevate authenticity, and enable meaningful partnerships across borders.

Becoming the Human Bridge

This time, I travel not as a spectator, but as a human bridge—linking disciplines, sectors, and geographies. My role is to co-create spaces—like the AtoA Table—where partners, clients, contributors, and institutions can align and activate. In every city, these gatherings unlock local-global synergies, birthing projects that are both visionary and grounded.

From startups in Seoul to urbanists in Amsterdam, from creative technologists in Tokyo to climate thinkers in Paris, I am building a map of human circulation—alive, expanding, and self-renewing.

Big Human Circulation: A Living Network

This is more than a trip. It’s a living network—a heartbeat that connects cities, people, and insights. It delivers clarity where there’s confusion, connection where there’s fragmentation, and credibility where there’s doubt. Through BigC.Works, we’ll document these stories—not as headlines, but as human-scale dispatches from the future.

Follow the Circulation

Whether you’re a policymaker in Paris, a startup in Seoul, or a dreamer in San Francisco, I invite you to follow this journey. Join us at the next AtoA Table, or reach out to bring the table to your city. We’re building not just a magazine, but a movement—human-centered, globally distributed, and designed for this age of transformation.

This is not just a second trip. This is the Second Big Circulation.

And it begins now.