Vīta Brevis, Wit Artefāctōrum Ætērna

TecC 36 - From Knowing to Growing: The Hallowed Cathedrals of Learning

On how knowledge met structure and system, ubiquity and universality

Nov 14 • 

Ash Stuart

4

5

2

TecC 35B - The Art of Reinvention: When Many Became One

A study in the masterly synthesis and systematization of bottom-up forces

Nov 7 • 

Ash Stuart

11

3

1

October 2025

TecC 35A - The Art of Reinvention: When Less Became More

A study of simplicity and flexibility emerging from bottom-up systems

Oct 31 • 

Ash Stuart

14

5

2

TecC 34 - The Birth of the Romances

On the baby steps of emerging from an age of darkness and its (un)holy fetters

Oct 24 • 

Ash Stuart

12

5

6

TecC 30B - The Last of the Romans: Mind's Monumental Worth o'er Marble

When end endures beyond unmet ends - on the resounding legacy of indomitable intellect

Oct 17 • 

Ash Stuart

10

2

3

TecC 33B - The Golden Crescendo: The Baton of Knowledge

A most extraordinary story of the transfer of knowledge and innovation

Oct 10 • 

Ash Stuart

11

6

4

TecC 33 - The Golden Crescendo: The Beacon of Knowledge

The most extraordinary story of the synthesis of knowledge and innovation

Oct 3 • 

Ash Stuart

9

2

8

September 2025

TecC 32 - Taming the Unknown: The Queen of (the Queen of (the Sciences))

A study of one of the greatest feats of solving problem-solving

Sep 26 • 

Ash Stuart

12

11

6

TecC 31 - The Phoenix Principle: Schumpeterian Renewal II

The varied forms of renewal after the varied forms of systems collapse

Sep 19 • 

Ash Stuart

11

5

3

TecC Debrief: The Cognitive Revolution - Ancient Algorithms and the Tools for Thinking About Thinking

(Episodes 21-30)

Sep 12 • 

Ash Stuart

9

1

TecC Debrief: Integration, Innovation, and the Seeds of Collapse

(Episodes 12-20)

Sep 5 • 

Ash Stuart

9

2

2

August 2025

TecC 30 - The Last of the Romans: The Many Autumns

Revisiting Systems Collapse: The March of Ingenuity and its Painful Reversal, and the Perils of System Overreach

Aug 29 • 

Ash Stuart

15

9

5