WWB Trainer

WWB Key Ideas

Topic:

H4-Post Medieval

Post Medieval by Mike Prestwood.
Stories from 1500 to 1950.
The history of modern civilization.
New looks at the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the rise of science.

MODE:

~ 4 minutes of short abstracts.

Speed: 1.00

A Living Orientation to TouchstoneTruth.

What follows is not an introduction to a single essay or topic, but an orientation to the larger project it belongs to.

Rather than publishing for immediacy, the TouchstoneTruth project releases one edition per week of the TST Weekly Column while allowing ideas to mature long before and long after publication.

This project is built around the belief that ideas deserve time to be tested, refined, and revisited. Structured to preserve continuity, the ideas remain identifiable even as understanding evolves.

The Weekly Column

At the center of the project is the TST Weekly Column. Each week, one idea is explored as a complete edition.

Every edition focuses on a single idea, supported by research and revisited as understanding deepens. New ideas are often introduced as exploratory essays or weekly columns, where uncertainty is preserved rather than prematurely resolved.

These columns are meant to endure, to be returned to, and to change honestly.

The Research Layer

Beneath each column lives the WWB research layer made up of short, focused tidbits.

Tidbits are the smallest working units of this project—focused facts, stories, or explanations tied directly to evidence and sources.

These tidbits do the quiet work of grounding ideas in evidence.

The WWB Trainer

Ideas are not only read here—they are revisited.

The WWB Trainer exists to help ideas surface gradually over time, reconnecting related material through repetition and variation.

The Weekly Wisdom Builder Trainer is designed to help ideas surface repeatedly, not all at once.

A Philosophy of Journalism

Guided by the philosophy of journalism, it values clarity, sourcing, and restraint over speed or certainty.

Journalism becomes propaganda when conclusions precede inquiry.

Claims are shown alongside their evidence. Corrections are treated as integrity rather than weakness.

The TST Framework

To support clearer reasoning, TouchstoneTruth draws on the TST Framework.

At its core, the TST Framework exists to help ideas survive contact with reality.

The framework is composed of 5 thought tools, 4 mind traps, and 3 truth hammers.

The Idea of Ideas

At a deeper level, this work rests on an epistemology known as the Idea of Ideas.

Certainty belongs to reality; humility belongs to our ideas about it.

All knowledge here is treated as representational rather than final.

The Material–Spiritual Framework

Closely related is the Material–Spiritual Framework, which helps prevent category errors when thinking about reality, meaning, and human experience.

Moral values belong to the spiritual domain, even though they are influenced by material conditions.

It allows science to remain rigorous and meaning to remain real.

A Living Touchstone

Together, these elements form what I call a Living Touchstone.

A body of work designed to evolve without losing coherence—to preserve not just conclusions, but the reasoning that led to them.

The aim is not to persuade quickly, but to think responsibly over time.

One idea at a time.
Evidence where it belongs.
Revision without erasure.

Return when useful.
Revisit when needed.

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Writing and coding by Michael Alan Prestwood.