Important, Not Urgent (Or Who Knows?)
I'm working on something I've been calling my Household Access Planner.
“End-of-Life” file may be more immediately understandable, but I don't love the name. It sounds final. What I'm actually trying to build is a practical handoff for Brenda so that, if something happened to me, she wouldn't be so lost and could keep things going - especially financially.
We already have wills, representation agreements, powers of attorney and what I'd like to think is a decent Estate Plan framework. But that framework doesn't unlock my computer. It doesn't explain the Face ID fallback on my iPhone, which accounts send SMS codes, which authenticator apps control what, where recovery emails go, or how all the banks, insurance policies, subscriptions, assets, contacts and personal notes fit together.
As I work on more AI stuff, I'm also realizing just how many things I'm spinning up - and how hard they would be to hand off.
I'm using Grok Bot to help me assemble the map, while trying not to create a document that inadvertently gives away the keys to the kingdom. That tension is part of the Project: it needs to be detailed enough to be useful, but secure enough not to become a new risk of its own.
It is difficult work to choose. It would certainly be easier and more comfortable to watch another show on one of my too many streaming services. Or to stay “busy” working on our financial models.
But how useful are those models if no one else can access them?
Who plans to die early or unexpectedly anyway?
Important Project? Yes.
Urgent? No.
Or who knows?