The Point of Failure

Every component in a one-person estate has a failover — the rails retry, the bank refills, the deploys verify, the front doors are watched hourly. There is exactly one part with no redundancy, and it is not the server. This book gives the operator the treatment every other component gets: written down, checked, given limits, monitored. Five parts — the single point of failure; nine non-negotiables, each with the mechanism it protects, the way it fails, and a check that takes seconds; the bad day, the pause switch and the week after it; the ledger kept apart from the self; and where a book has to stop and a person has to start. It comes with the apparatus of a working manual rather than a monograph: eighteen activities, six drawn figures, a printable operator's card, eight hand-kept instruments, a one-page estate audit, a glossary, an index and a typeset PDF. It is not therapy and says so on the first page.