Preserving Wisdom

Why this matters

Every organization, family, and community depends on knowledge that doesn’t live in manuals or systems—it lives in people. When experience retires, moves on, or goes undocumented, that wisdom disappears.

Preserving Wisdom explores practical ways to retain what matters most: judgment, perspective, and lessons learned over time.

The book

When Experience Can Answer Back
Preserving Human Wisdom in the Age of AI
by Tom Sextro

This book is the foundation of the Preserving Wisdom project. It explores why human experience still matters in an AI-driven world—and how families, educators, and organizations can capture wisdom before it’s lost.

👉 View the book on Amazon

Available in Paperback and Kindle.

How I help

I work with organizations, educators, and leaders who are facing what I call the wisdom problem—the challenge of retaining critical knowledge as people and roles change.

My focus is not on replacing people with AI, but on using technology thoughtfully to capture institutional knowledge, preserve experience during transitions, and make insight searchable, shareable, and usable.

If your organization is thinking about how to retain wisdom—not just information—I’m happy to talk.

Contact

Email: tsextro@gmail.com

Educator Wisdom is an education-focused application of the broader Preserving Wisdom mission.

While Preserving Wisdom explores how human experience, judgment, and institutional knowledge can be captured and made accessible across many domains, Educator Wisdom applies those same ideas directly to teaching, counseling, and school leadership— preserving mentor-level insight in a form that can be searched, explored, and learned from by others.

To learn more about this education-specific work, visit educatorwisdom.com.