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A setting inside Apple or Google can outrank your will. Here's the actual hierarchy, the Keychain hole, and how to make the settings and the documents say the same names.

Estate plans decay from the day you make them. Here's a catalog of what silently breaks, plus a quarterly and annual maintenance schedule to keep yours alive.

A complete death binder checklist — every document, password, and wish your family will need — plus an honest look at where paper binders fail and how to fix it.

A walk through the exact email your people receive when your switch fires — the subject line, your letter, their documents — and how to preview it yourself today.

If you died tomorrow, would your family know where the will is, how to reach the people who matter, or what you'd want at the end? The "If I'm Gone" journal puts it all in one place, sealed until the moment it's needed. Here's how to build one in Killswitch, plus a real example to copy.

If you've ever designed a distributed system, you already know how to do digital estate planning. The vocabulary is the same — single point of failure, failover, RTO, audit log — and the question is the same: what happens to a critical node when it goes down? You just haven't applied the framework to yourself yet.

Your code outlives you. Your accounts don't. Your npm packages keep being downloaded a million times a week with nobody at the wheel. A look at what actually happens to a developer's open source footprint after death — and why the bus factor of half the internet is one.

Your Bitcoin has an inheritance problem. Your NFTs, DeFi positions, and Web3 identities have a worse one. Here's what actually lives on-chain, what dies with the wallet, and how to build an inheritance plan that works for all of it.

Your divorce decree updates the big stuff. But hundreds of digital accounts still list your ex as beneficiary, trusted contact, or admin. Here's what to change, in what order, and how to make sure nothing gets missed.

If you died tomorrow, could your family unlock the front door, stop the robot vacuum, or turn off the camera pointed at the living room? The connected home has quietly become one of the most overlooked parts of digital estate planning.