Hub "Maintenance Romanticsm"
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Being a lighthouse keeper or an archivist or a programmer working on a legacy project. If find there is a certain amount of romanticism attached to being a maintainer of things. Jobs like this are often somewhat unthankful and invisible, but nonetheless important. They can also be incredibly rewarding. Take these snippets of an article on the deep sea cable industry:
Shipboard life lends itself to a strong sense of camaraderie, with periods of collaboration under pressure followed by long stretches — en route to a worksite or waiting for storms to pass — without much to do but hang out. — The Invisible Seafaring Industry That Keeps the Internet Afloat
Maintaining The Blog
I think maintaining this blog is also a case of maintenance romanticism as doing continuous work on it, improving it, reworking older posts like this one, feels cozy to me. Nobody thanks me for this work either (except my future self) and it is also somewhat invisible - although there is a certain way in which I try to surface the maintenance work done (an interesting tension). Examples of maintenance:
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