My father wrote in the margin: “This book made me slow down. And that’s when I started to wake up.”
 
In 2038, nothing lasts. Tools are disposable. Thoughts are outsourced. But this artifact — Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — showed me what my father meant by “intentional conduct.” It's about tending to your internal engine as carefully as you tune a machine.
 
This first edition is 50 years older than I am. Its pages carry the weight of a world where quality still mattered. Where people still wrestled with ideas. And where freedom came from slowing down and fixing what was broken — starting with yourself.
 
My father labeled this one Artifact 0003, tucked a folded note between pages 100 and 101, and left it for me like a map:
“Follow the tension. That’s where the lesson is.”
 
Includes:
Original 1974 first edition hardcover
His handwritten post-it
Handwritten note by me
 
For those ready to ride the road inward.