21st Century Engineering by Anirudh Dhebar
April 2026
No maintenance, no product, process or system
This headline is motivated by two closing sentences from
the fourth paragraph of a column I read Christmas Eve
(“Why Self-Improvement Starts With Maintenance,” The
Financial Times, Dec. 24, 2025): “No brushing, no teeth. No
maintenance, no machine.”
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