Introducing the Certified Legacy Scholar Course

The Commingled Archive: How Synthetic Content is Rewriting the Future of Oral History

The line between an authentic record of a human life and a manufactured one is closing. Future historians will not be able to tell, by any technical means, what was real. This episode walks through The Commingled Archive, an essay by Stephen Mucher on the Authentication Horizon and what it means for the historical record we are leaving behind.

Sondage - What, Why, Who

Sondage is a governance platform for the documentation of human life. As artificial intelligence floods the world with machine-made biography, Sondage credentials independent practitioners who sit with elders and produce certified primary sources of a life, in studio-grade audio or in curated collections. Every record is governed by three commitments. Human authorship. Embodied provenance. Non-custodial sovereignty held by the elder.

How the New Geragogy Informs Conscious Legacy Preservation

Learning theory has long skewed toward youth and early adulthood. The Modern Elder Movement and research in Geragogy points in new directions that raise the stakes for oral historians and practitioners of life review.

How Hallucinations Rewrite Human History

Summarizes the main argument in "The Commingled Archive: How synthetic content is rewriting the future of oral history."

Introducing the Certified Legacy Scholar Course

Why you should consider earning a CLS and immediately begin building your practice in conscious legacy scholarship.