**Make backups. Do premortems. Utilize open file types.** Planning for failure is a CYA technique. There are a few ways to plan for failure. 1. Do a pre-mortem. 2. Make backups. Make backups in other locations, or on other services. 3. Utilize Open Source filetypes. They aren’t locked into any one application. [[Plain Text Durability]] 4. [[Have a Buffer]] have separate [[Deadlines and "Do" Dates]] **** # More ## Source - [[The Organized Mind]] ## Related - [[Pre-mortem]] - [[System Fault Tolerance]] - [[Do the Simplest Thing]] - [[Morale Dependence is Worse]]