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The first in-depth exploration of maintenance—and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance—from the author of How Buildings Learn and creator of the Whole Earth Catalog.
Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It's what keeps life going. Yet it's also easy to shirk or defer—until the thing breaks, the system falters, and everything stops. The apparent paradox is profound: Maintenance is absolutely necessary and maintenance is optional.
The first in a multi-volume work, Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One offers a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance. The book begins with a dramatic contest of maintenance styles under life-critical conditions: the Golden Globe around-the-world solo sailboat race of 1968. It goes on to explore the insights that can be gleaned from vehicle maintenance, from the zeal of motorcycle maintainers to the maintenance philosophies that fought for dominance of the auto industry to the state of electric vehicle manufacturing today, with absorbing detours into the evolution of precision in manufacturing, the enduring importance of manuals, sustainment in the military, and the never-ending battle against corrosion.
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 something—whether a motorcycle, a monument, or our very planet—can be a radical act.
"No one else but Stewart Brand is talking about the art and science of maintenance and how to do it well. This will be an instant classic."
—Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist
"A deliciously good book."
—Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired
Contents
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
