institutional memory – John Rector

An imagined terracotta civic building beside the sea, shown in cutaway with a lifted tiled roof, exposed timber joints, a ladder, and copper repair patches against a deep green sky.

Books

Built to Continue: The Art of Keeping a World Working

October 29, 2026 jsrector

Every launch creates a life of obligations. Through spacecraft repair, historic preservation, digital memory, and AI operations, Built to Continue explores how people keep useful things working—and how they decide what to repair, change, hand over, or allow to end. … readBuilt to Continue: The Art of Keeping a World Working

Artificial Intelligence, Business Advice

The Archivist

August 21, 2026 jsrector

Keeping a record of what your business believes was never a discipline problem. It was a cost problem, and the cost just fell by three orders of magnitude. You do not file the knowledge. You give the job its own motor. … readThe Archivist