The Maintenance Race

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“Traditional systems, like wood-plank keeled boats, have an advantage over innovative systems, like the then-novel plywood trimarans, in that the whole process of maintaining traditional things is well-explored and widely understood: old systems break in familiar ways; new systems break in unexpected ways.”

This is rather akin to the Lindy effect?

[Review to come]

See also

• The Long Way
• The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst