Zen and the Art of Chimney Sweeping
A New book by Ian Myers:
Zen And The Art Of Chimney Sweeping is not a book about how to sweep a chimney. It is an inquiry into how professionals learn to see. Drawing upon more than two decades of work in solid-fuel maintenance, inspection, education, investigation and standards development, Ian Myers explores the quiet transformation by which technique becomes experience, experience becomes judgment, and carefully preserved observation becomes professional understanding. The book provides the philosophical foundation for Solid-Fuel Maintenance Intelligence (SFMI): a methodology built upon disciplined inquiry, honest documentation, humility before evidence, and the recognition that every ordinary maintenance visit contains knowledge that may otherwise disappear. Beginning in the chimney trade but reaching far beyond it, Zen And The Art Of Chimney Sweeping asks a question relevant to every serious practitioner, educator, investigator, engineer, insurer and profession entrusted with public confidence: How does a profession learn from itself?
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