Stewart Brand

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734 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 24 Apr

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And so he got kind of bruised up.

I think you do whatever you have to do.

For some people, they make it a ritual that they enjoy as a ritual.

It's like praying or something.

Others do it as they can do it mindlessly while they are thinking or listening to something else entirely.

There's a book called Round the Bend I'll be writing about soon.

that it's basically an error.

It tells in the 1920s of airlines taking shape in the Middle East.

And one of the aircraft mechanics is very interested in religion, and he becomes a kind of a sage that people come to and listen to.

And he's teaching maintenance as basically a form of spiritual practice.

And which is pretty interesting because Arab cultures are not so good on maintenance.

That's why they always lose wars in the Middle East.

And there's a whole section in the print book about that.

So a lot of these things are culture deep.

And if your culture is making it hard for you to be a good maintainer, you've got to figure out the workarounds.

Maybe make it a spiritual practice.

Maybe ensure that the officers are involved in doing maintenance.

And that way, they will respect it and take it seriously.

In the U.S.

and in NATO militaries, it's the non-commissioned officers that are responsible for maintenance.

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