{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle","description":"&quot;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,&quot; wrote W.B. Yeats. I don't know about the centre, but the tendency of things to fall apart is pretty universal, ultimately due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Anyone living in a society or involved with technology must therefore be interested in the concept of maintenance -- keeping systems working. In his book&amp;nbsp;Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, Stewart Brand looks at the challenges and rewards of this concept. Blog post with transcript: https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/podcast\/2026\/01\/19\/341-stewart-brand-on-maintenance-as-an-organizing-principle\/ Support Mindscape on&amp;nbsp;Patreon. Stewart Brand received an undergraduate degree in biology from Stanford University. He was the founder, editor, and publisher of the&amp;nbsp;Whole Earth Catalog, which won a National Book Award. He founded the journal&amp;nbsp;CoEvolution Quarterly&amp;nbsp;and the&amp;nbsp;WELL&amp;nbsp;electronic community, and was a co-founder of the&amp;nbsp;Long Now Foundation. He has been called &quot;the 20th century's top influencer.&quot;  Web site Amazon author page Wikipedia   ","author_name":"Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas","author_url":"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/podcast\/","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/39880050\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/197881830"}