Curriculum & Reading Schedule

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Module 1 Forensic Studio

Forensic post-mortem of catastrophic platform shutdowns. Deconstructing corporate death notices, user panic, and data loss curves.

Module 2 Systems Architecture

Designing resilient, distributed storage architectures resistant to bit rot, link rot, and corporate sunsetting.

Module 3 Sovereignty Engineering

Technical patterns for self-sovereign digital persistence. Local-first databases, zero-dependency HTML, and cryptographic provenance.

Module 4 Live Simulation

Real-time crisis triage simulation. Rapid-fire classification under imminent shutdown constraints and bandwidth scarcity.

Module 5 Institutional Design

Governance models, perpetual trusts, and institutional structures capable of outlasting single corporate entities.

Module 6 Tool Construction

Constructing translation tooling that reads dead database dumps and generates modern, reactive Web4 interfaces.

Module 7 Political Economy

Sustainable business models for digital preservation. Navigating commons funding, semantic IP, and forensic recovery fees.

Module 8 Community Organization

Recruiting practitioners, educating developers, and building institutional counter-power against platform monopolization.

Module 9 Public Intellectual

Publishing research for public impact. Translating esoteric archaeological forensics into actionable public interest journalism.

Module 10 Major Capstone

The culmination of the practicum: complete excavation, forensic report, and functional sovereign reconstruction defense.

Module 11 Design Principles

Synthesizing deep excavation lessons into permanent UX patterns: offline-first, sovereign data ownership, and heirloom software.