About the Author
Ash Stuart is a seasoned technologist with over three decades of experience in programming and technological innovation across diverse business domains. His professional journey spans engineering, business strategy, entrepreneurship, and consulting—all within the technology sector.
Beyond his professional expertise, Ash has cultivated deep personal interests in a wide range of disciplines both in the sciences and the humanities, including history, economics, comparative linguistics and etymology, geopolitics, anthropology, epistemology, philosophy and more. These explorations have given him uncommon breadth and depth of knowledge that informs his unique perspective on our rapidly changing world.
The Publication
This publication represents Ash's exploration of understanding reality through a distinct intellectual framework—one of several approaches he employs. Through careful first-principles analysis, he examines how human innovation and action shape our world and drive progress.
Alongside this main publication, Ash maintains Polymathon, a complementary stream dedicated to broader polymathic exploration across multiple disciplines and epistemological frameworks.
The Experience
This publication offers readers:
Frameworks for understanding complex technological and societal developments
Accessible explanations of sophisticated concepts without requiring prior technical knowledge
A coherent intellectual approach built article by article
A unique perspective informed by unusual breadth of knowledge
Fun footnotes!
New content is intended to be made available once a week, with each piece building upon previous explorations to create an integrated understanding of our world.
For those curious about the inspiration behind this project and Ash's personal journey, the Introduction article provides more details in his own voice.
Ash here. Just to let you know, the above content About me is mostly AI generated (Claude Sonnet 3.7). However, as far as my own articles are concerned, I write them myself and in my very own voice, for that’s the point of the whole thing dammit!
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