Maintenance: Of Everything is a wide-ranging and provocative call to expand what we mean by 'maintenance' not just the tiresome preventative tasks but the whole grand process of keeping a thing going. It invites us to understand not only the profound impact maintenance has on our daily lives but also why taking responsibility for maintaining some
Maintenance: Of Everything is a wide-ranging and provocative call to expand what we mean by 'maintenance' not just the tiresome preventative tasks but the whole grand process of keeping a thing going. It invites us to understand not only the profound impact maintenance has on our daily lives but also why taking responsibility for maintaining some
Stewart Brand is the cofounder and president of The Long Now Foundation and cofounder of Global Business Network, the Hackers Conference, and the WELL. He created and edited the National Book Award-winning Whole Earth Catalog from 1968 to 1998. His books include The Media Lab (1987), How Buildings Learn (1994), The Clock of the Long Now (1999), and Whole Earth Discipline (2009). He was the subject of the documentary We Are As Gods (2020). He graduated from Stanford with a degree in biology and served as an infantry officer in the US Army.
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Introduction The Path to Print Credits
Chapter 1: The Maintenance Race
Chapter 2: Vehicles (and Weapons) What Motorcycles Teach about Maintenance Motorcycle Footnote 1: Ride to Die Motorcycle Footnote 2: The Instruction in Disassembly Three Maintenance Philosophies Fought for Control of the Auto Industry Digression 1: Precision: How America Made Machines Make Machines What the Three Most Popular Cars in History Have in Common Digression 2: From Manuals to YouTube (with a Detour) Great Manuals in History Two Assault Rifles YouTube Rules Digression 3: Corrosion: Rust Never Sleeps Digression 4: Sustainment How Poor Maintenance Loses Wars: 1973, Israel Maintains Sustainment: The Concept How Poor Maintenance Loses Wars: 2022, Ukraine Maintains The End of Combustion Vehicles Digression 5: Elon Musk Postscript 1: Unreliability Incorporated Postscript 2: First Vehicle Recommended Reading Endnotes Bibliography Index
Chapter 2: Vehicles (and Weapons) What Motorcycles Teach about Maintenance Motorcycle Footnote 1: Ride to Die Motorcycle Footnote 2: The Instruction in Disassembly Three Maintenance Philosophies Fought for Control of the Auto Industry Digression 1: Precision: How America Made Machines Make Machines What the Three Most Popular Cars in History Have in Common Digression 2: From Manuals to YouTube (with a Detour) Great Manuals in History Two Assault Rifles YouTube Rules Digression 3: Corrosion: Rust Never Sleeps Digression 4: Sustainment How Poor Maintenance Loses Wars: 1973, Israel Maintains Sustainment: The Concept How Poor Maintenance Loses Wars: 2022, Ukraine Maintains The End of Combustion Vehicles Digression 5: Elon Musk Postscript 1: Unreliability Incorporated Postscript 2: First Vehicle Recommended Reading Endnotes Bibliography Index
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