Books in Progress

Anatomy of a vehicular revolution.

Formula for victory—transform your military culture toward innovation and maintenance.

“Sustainment” and “mission command” are ideas worth spreading.

Formula for victory—repair your enemy’s abandoned weapons.

We want to make rust just go away, and it just won’t. So we negotiate.

YouTube’s two billion users rely on a boundless cornucopia of videos showing how to fix everything—including how to make better YouTube videos.

How a maintenance-hostile gun killed its users.

Early manuals didn’t just instruct, they broke through class barriers.

Model T’s, Volkswagon beetles, and Ladas were cheap, common, consistent, and readily repairable.

By virtue of an arcane military obsession with repairability, the newly born United States became the world’s leading manufacturer in just a century.

What are the best ways to design for maintenance? At the very beginning of the auto industry, no less than three radically different design-for-maintenance philosophies fought it out.

Two philosophers famously explain how the subtleties of repairing motorcycles exemplify human thinking at its best.

The 1968 Golden Globe sailboat race required the competitors to sail alone, non-stop, around the world.  The ten-month ordeal tested the limits of their endurance, courage, and skill—and another attribute that turned out to be crucial.