A great WSJ review of Maintenance: “Maintaining and fixing…helps us rise above what he calls the “neglect mind.” We live in a culture that celebrates optimists—the risk-taking startup founder, the rope-scorning big-wall climber. Mr. Brand believes we also need a dash of pessimism, the willingness to anticipate trouble and to work hard heading it off. “Maintainers are realists,” he writes. Without them, our technological world grinds to a halt. Gift link: