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Estate Planning for Engineers: A System Design Approach to Digital Inheritance

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.

May 18, 2026 Read more