
Fixing is the on-ramp to making. Every maker
I know started as a fixer; they were somehow
dissatisfied with what was pre-existing, what
was available to them to fulfill a need, and were
compelled to embark on a journey to create the
thing they truly wanted instead.
Repairing and maintaining our broken
electronics and appliances, repairing and
maintaining our furniture and fabrics, repairing
and maintaining our industrial equipment and
infrastructure, repairing and maintaining our built
environment overall — it’s all a proxy for how we
are interacting with our world today and what
it means to repair and maintain the planet, the
precious and