Stewart Brand
speaker
734 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 24 Apr
Stewart Brand’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Sometimes maintenance tasks are seen as of a cased-level difference.
Who cleans the toilets?
who takes care of the dead things.
And so many maintenance tasks are not only low status, they're low paid.
And that doesn't need to be the case.
And people don't notice the really good maintainers from the
So-so maintainers, because they're not paying attention.
Well, the really good maintainers are worth paying attention to, to the point that they do get recognized, they do get paid.
And basically, honored is sort of the way we honor librarians or libraries.
These are actually the pillars of civilization.
The folk singer Pete Seeger said, you should consider that an essential art of civilization is maintenance.
I'm 87 years old.
Guess what?
By the time you're in your 80s, just being old is a half-time job.
In the maintenance theory, this is called the bathtub curve, like with a building.
And when it's brand new, there's lots of problems.
But then they sort of even out, and you can kind of plug along and just stay ahead of the maintenance.
It'll be okay.
But then when it gets pretty old, especially if it's a wooden building,
Problems increase.
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