We revisit an episode from 2016 that asks: Has our culture’s obsession with innovation led us to neglect the fact that things also need to be taken care of?
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We're always hearing about innovation and disruption and the new new thing, and a lot of that stuff is wonderful.
But I've been thinking lately that we tend to overlook something equally important, maybe more important, maintaining what we've already built.
And then I remembered that we made an episode about this idea back in 2016 called in praise of maintenance.
So we went back into the archive, dusted off that episode, updated facts and figures as necessary, and today we are playing it for you as a bonus episode.
I'd love to know what you think.
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A while back, I got obsessed with the notion of maintenance.
Notion of how much time maintenance takes.