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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Well, especially if the tugboat is made of wood and built in 1912.
Wooden boats don't usually last more than a century.
Ours has because of a whole lot of maintenance.
And boats are so lovable.
We call them she.
They are...
All that stands between us and the wine-dark sea trying to kill us, they're like a motorcycle in that respect.
They're kind of hazardous.
And so relying on them is an intimate process.
So maintaining a vote has...
an endearingness quality to it that is attractive.
What is not attractive is the amount of it and the cost of it and the specializedness of the work that has to be done.
It's like living inside a beautiful violin
where all of the curves and all the nuances are very carefully crafted.
And replacing parts crafted in that detail takes some doing.
But it's worth doing.
Well, I can't do meditation.
I get bored.
But people who do meditation sort of embrace the boredom and utilize it as a way to calm their mind and maybe center their mind on something they don't usually go to mentally.
For example, often things of maintenance are done by Japanese with a great deal of ceremony.
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