Stewart Brand

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

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The Ezra Klein Show · Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle · 24 Apr 2026 podcast

And we're always maintaining our bodies.

We maintain our vehicles and our houses and homes and cities that we live in.

And we're catching on that civilization is something to maintain as a whole.

And even the planet, we've now stepped up to terraforming.

So we've been terraforming badly, and we need to terraform well.

So the levels of maintenance are enormous, and the constancy of it is a given.

Because I'm a bad maintainer.

I brushed my teeth when I felt like it, and consequently I lost quite a few.

And looking into the things that you're not good at, especially intellectually, I think is one way to stay young, because you've got a beginner's mind.

But I did grow up with a father who was a do-it-yourself kind of guy with a

Big bench in the basement, and I had a bench in the basement.

And as you know, many software programmers began by building quiche kit radios and stuff.

Well, that was me too.

I was building quiche kit radios.

Well, they both began basically in 1908.

And Ford was building...

a car that could manage American driving when it was all dirt roads.

It started to be pretty rough and ready and rugged and robust.

And he'd figured out interchangeable parts by then so they could manufacture cheaply.

Rolls-Royce went the other way, which was to have a car so perfectly tuned with every part filed to exactly fit with all the other parts around it.

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