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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It's dependent on the situation.
Yeah.
the system, the person, the tools they have at hand.
One of the great things about Robin Knox Johnson, the guy who won the Golden Globe sailboat race, was that he could improvise solutions where
nobody else could.
For example, his charger stopped working and he went inside it and figured out, oh yeah, okay, there's a place where there's some grease on the system here and grease that off and then put it back together.
And oops, I don't have a way to measure the distance that's supposed to be in the gap here.
And
And without that, how could he set the gap for the spark plug, I guess, or something like that?
And then he figured out, wait a minute, let's see, how many pages of my logbook here does it take to make an inch?
Let's see, this is a tiny fraction of an inch.
That would be like five pages.
So he used five pages as a way to figure out the gap and measure to that, and then it worked again.
Another time he had to solder something in his radio, but he didn't have any solder on board.
So he took apart a bunch of...
Tiny extra bulbs that he had where there was solder inside of where it hooked up to the filament.
And he carefully melted all those together.
And then he had enough solder to fix the radio.
That's the kind of improvisation it's often called for.
I do, or have done.
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