In Maintenance: Of Everything, @stewartbrand encourages us to see our world through the lens of maintenance and repair. Part One explores what we can learn from the maintenance of sailboats, motorcycles, cars, and weapons. Preorder now: https://t.co/RqJ3EJh6Zn

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Lovingly edited videos of people with unusual tacit knowledge! Yes! I have no idea how we're going to solve the problem of conveying tacit knowledge, but video seems like such a powerful avenue: there's so much in expression, voice tone, the environment, etc.

fascinating guy - international chemistry olympiad and kung fu champ, MIT master perfumer working in 200D space. inspiring to meet him this week. In world of workflows + prediction, how do we value intuitive knowledge? Must watch these films from @stripepress @_TamaraWinter.

1/ Today @stripepress is releasing the first two mini-documentaries in a series we’re calling Tacit. They’re vignettes of craftspeople who provide a pretty compelling answer to the question, “after AI, does mastery still matter?” This episode features Christophe Laudamiel,

i lied posters for the premiere of Tacit tonight w/ @stripepress & @_TamaraWinter more to come later this week

Another marvelous book by @stripepress. If you care about productivity and economic growth, this is a must read. It explains on the most granular level how things become more efficient through technology or process redesign.

5/ The restoration finished in time for the July 4, 1986 centennial. The celebration was attended by millions of people, 40,000 boats, and 2 presidents. A third of the global population watched it on TV, and 20 tons of fireworks lit up the sky while the US Marine Band played “The

4/ Public committees raised $277 million (about $1.5 billion today) to restore the statue. The restoration required a slew of innovative techniques to preserve the statue’s original copper skin, including: 🪜305 feet of free-standing scaffolding ❄️ 3,500 gallons of liquid

3/ A series of stopgap measures to deal with the corrosion only worsened the damage.  In 1911, a coating of coal tar applied to the interior wound up leaking through the rivet holes and staining the exterior. Over the years, 8 additional layers of paint trapped moisture between

2/ The 150-foot statue, gifted to the US by France in 1886, was made of 80 tons of copper sheets riveted to 135 tons of wrought-iron armature. The iron skeleton was designed by Gustave Eiffel. To prevent corrosion resulting from iron touching copper, he separated the metals with

1/ 🧵on how a century of maintenance failures nearly destroyed the Statue of Liberty—and the massive engineering project that restored it in time for its 1986 centennial celebration. From Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One by @stewartbrand: https://t.co/XDtvD94rCj

very cool to see Maintenance: of Everything by @stewartbrand being printed not many people know that to make 3d books for the @stripepress website, we first have to print thousands of copies irl

Behind the scenes of making Prince of Persia: 💾My game dev diaries from 1985 to 1993, hardcover illustrated edition published by @stripepress 📘 https://t.co/UXWLv0lD3g

what's your favorite @stripepress book? it's time for the annual christmas haul.

5/ Ford’s approach unleashed massive user creativity: owners started converting Model Ts into tractors, boats, even airplanes. The car became raw material.  Decades later, @stewartbrand notes, something similar occurred when personal computers, cell phones, and the internet

4/ The Ford approach: maintenance by design. Ford accepted that cars would need constant care and designed accordingly: the Model T had only 100 different standardized parts. Owners checked the oil, cleared clogged cooling lines regularly, and were trusted to perform complex

3/ The Rolls-Royce approach: precision engineering. Craftsmen assembled each Silver Ghost by hand, using loupes and micrometers to fit every part exactly. The cars were so reliable that most early Silver Ghosts still run today—each worth over $1 million. In a media stunt in

2/ The electric approach: minimal maintenance. Compared to combustion engines, early electric vehicles had fewer parts and no fluid: the only regular attention needed was to check the battery’s water levels and clean the lead-acid plates. Accordingly, service centers picked them

1/ 🧵 The early auto industry offered three distinct theories of maintenance. Each made a different assumption about what owners wanted from their cars.  From Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One by @stewartbrand: https://t.co/RqJ3EJh6Zn

Feels like a fun time to say that @boys_nicholas, the brilliant founder and chairman of @createstreets, is writing a book for @stripepress! Density and beauty can and do coexist in many places around the world, and should in many more.