Vīta Brevis, Wit Artefāctōrum Ætērna Podcast

Vīta Brevis, Wit Artefāctōrum Ætērna Podcast

Ash Stuart

Episodes 110
Avg. Duration 11m
Activity Highly Active
Since Sep 2024
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Every Few Days
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Episodic
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46%
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About This Podcast

Exploring innovation, progress and achievement: a first-principles approach to everything that matters; combining history, epistemology, economics, anthropology, geopolitics, finance, philology, etymology and more... for, life is short, knowledge forever.

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Recent Episodes

S4E7 The Story of Money: Time and its Relationship with Money

Apr 05, 2026 7m

Last time we saw how the seemingly simple concept of ‘risk’ can have profound consequences in the story of money and our life in general. This time let’s explore another underrated idea in relation…

S3E48 TecC 48 - Seeking Symmetry, Finding Balance, Making Harmony

Apr 03, 2026 18m

In writing about the march of innovation and progress from my first-principles multi-disciplinary perspective, I’ve often sought to connect seemingly mundane developments with much bigger even…

S4E6 The Story of Money: What is Risk?

Mar 29, 2026 7m

We all have a sense of what risk is, alongside our notions of whether it’s good or bad, and how to deal with it. We’ve also seen the intersection of risk and money, but let’s dig a bit deeper, for…

S3E47 TecC 47 - Giving Ideas Shape: Crystallizing Inventiveness

Mar 27, 2026 14m

The last four episodes released have served as a mini-series, or a tetralogy, deviating chronologically to lay the foundation for some important aspects of earlier innovation still of relevance to…

S4E5 The Story of Money: Is Capital just Money?

Mar 22, 2026 6m

So far, in a series about money, I’ve never once mentioned the c-word. More than the terms ‘money’ or ‘profit’, ‘capital’ is perhaps the most loaded one in the field. But let’s look at what capital…

S362E2 TecC 36B2 - Melting Mind's Molds: The New Clear Option

Mar 20, 2026 15m

This is the fourth of a thread in our study of the understanding how knowledge itself works. We started with the very questions of reality and how we can know anything. We explored the fight between…

S4E4 The Story of Money: On the Worth of Value and Gain

Mar 18, 2026 7m

Having so far covered the very basic concepts of money, the market and the pricing mechanism, in the previous episode I first properly introduced the word economy, with its literal origins as…

S4E3 The Story of Money: The Enigma of Price

Mar 15, 2026 6m

In the previous two episodes, the first in this new series, we first gathered some money and then went to the market. Let’s now look at a key component of all the transactions that take place there:…

S362E1 TecC 36B1 - From Rote to Rigor: The Heady Champion of Learning

Mar 13, 2026 11m

This is still a thread on the study of the science of knowledge in continuation with the last couple of episodes released. Previously in Episode 33C1 and Episode 33C2 we covered two towering titans…

S4E2 The Story of Money: What is the Market?

Mar 08, 2026 8m

In the introduction to the series, I hinted at the word ‘money’ evoking strange emotions - and now, the word ‘market’ can also do the same, as it’s wound up in a whole lot of connotations and…

S33E2 TecC 33C2 - The Golden Crescendo: Reason's Reckoning with Reality

Mar 06, 2026 13m

In the previous episode, I provided an introduction to the fundamental questions of being, becoming and knowing, and as explained by a preeminent thinker on the topic - and of course using a certain…

S4E1 The Story of Money: What is Money Anyways?

Mar 04, 2026 4m

So yes, let’s start at the very heart of the matter: what is money after all? Now even though we might think we know it all too well, it could turn out to be more than what we think.On the most basic…

S4 Introducing: The Story of Money

Mar 01, 2026 5m

Greetings one and all.Everybody loves money! Or at least, everyone needs money. Money is an essential reality in our life. Yet, the word ‘money’ can evoke strange reactions - and I want to explore…

S33E1 TecC 33C1 - The Golden Crescendo: The Very Architect of Existence

Feb 27, 2026 17m

As described in Episode 33C, in a fractal spinoff starting with this episode, I shall be covering the achievements of the greatest minds of a forgotten golden age of innovation and intellectual…

S3E46 TecC 46 - Charting the Uncharted: Redrawing the Map

Feb 20, 2026 19m

In Episodes 43 to 45 we saw some of the foundational developments that characterize the Renaissance, or what we specifically understand to be the Italian renaissance. Now, let’s cast the net wider,…

S335E4 TecC 35D - The Art of Reinvention: Remaking Language, Literature, Life Itself

Feb 13, 2026 18m

Ever so often arrives a titan of skill supreme and sublime Whose life and works will with achievement itself rhyme Such as may have set the stage, mayhaps even defined an age But our man, if you…

S335E3 TecC 35C - The Art of Reinvention: The Strange Dance of Sounds

Feb 06, 2026 19m

Today I’ll discuss, even explain, a very weird phenomenon that we are confronted with every single day. If not justify it, I hope to partly answer a burning question underlying it.Read full article…

S3E45 TecC 45 - Dominating the Skies, Cementing your Glory

Jan 30, 2026 15m

So last time we discussed what might appear to be largely a theoretical point - linear perspective, promising to give you a sort of ‘live demo’. So here we are, demo time! I also withheld the name of…

S3E44 TecC 44 - Perfecting Perspicacity: An Insight into Reality

Jan 23, 2026 17m

Back in Episode 24, I made a what-might-seem-bold claim about a certain method being the best tool we have to understand reality, with Episode 32 being one case in point. Today, I’ll explore another…

S3E43 TecC 43 - Making Work Art, Making Art Work, Engineering Excellence

Jan 16, 2026 22m

What is it that makes genius? How much of it is in the persona of an individual and how much of it comes from, what I’ve called, institutional technologies? How does it organize and amplify knowledge…

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Vīta Brevis, Wit Artefāctōrum Ætērna Podcast has published 110 episodes since September 2024, covering topics in History, Technology.

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