Stewart Brand
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 24 Apr
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And that's a large part of how it proceeds.
that it's not been a subject in its own right ever.
It's sort of like the discovery of infrastructure.
When the term infrastructure was introduced in kind of the middle of the 20th century, it was like a new way to think about things, a new way to think about cities, a new way to think about civilization.
As we've been building up a global infrastructure, it's a new way to think about a global civilization and the things that it has to do.
maintained, basically, to keep going.
And the ambition to grasp, basically, the whole world of maintenance is crazy, but fun.
And fun for the region as well as me.
So the
Most of us are doing maintenance most of the time in one form or another.
And I can tell you, when you get to be 87, you're doing, which I am, you get to be doing quite a lot of maintenance just to get through the day.
And you talk to software engineers, and most of them are basically doing maintenance, trying to keep all the stuff that's changing in the universe where the programs they care about are operating, up to speed, debugging, weird things that come in from new dependencies that were introduced, blah, blah, blah.
And most engineers, mechanical engineers,
taken up on maintenance.
I have, in what's going to be the next part of the book, a history of blacksmithing.
And people talk about blacksmiths, the amazing things they made.
Mostly, they spent most of their time, like doctors, fixing stuff that was broken.
And so that's, it is an all-encompassing and therefore hard to get your head around domain
And I don't think there's any, like...
deep insights into okay this is the way to think about maintenance and all will be well other than that you bear in mind the system that the thing that you're maintaining is immersed in and so you get some systems perspective on it and really what you want to do is maintain the thing that the system is in and probably the system that that system is in at least two levels up hierarchically and
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