Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
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Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
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Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
#2I thought this was going to be interesting but it’s a markdown file of information your partner should already have.
The lesson from this markdown file is that if your partner can’t figure this stuff out on their own you need to sort it out yesterday. I doubt that the information being open source or being in markdown format is going to help out your partner whatsoever.
Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
#3I thought this was going to be interesting but it’s a markdown file of information your partner should already have. The lesson from this markdown file is that if your partner can’t figure this stuff out on their own you need to sort it out yesterday. I doubt that the information being open source or being in markdown format is going to help out your partner whatsoever.
This is valuable in the sense that it accomplishes like 80% of what you need to think about when establishing a doc like this, and the open source nature of it is novel because you can crowd-source updates more effectively than via a comment section.
Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
#4I thought this was going to be interesting but it’s a markdown file of information your partner should already have. The lesson from this markdown file is that if your partner can’t figure this stuff out on their own you need to sort it out yesterday. I doubt that the information being open source or being in markdown format is going to help out your partner whatsoever.
> your partner should already have
There's an increasing number of single people and lone-livers.
> if your partner can’t figure this stuff out on their own you need to sort it out yesterday.
I don't know how common it is, but I know there are some couples who just don't think of this kind of stuff, at all, until it's too late.
Mostly I've heard of it through a sudden death - the other person now has to figure out what and how all the things are paid for and handled.
I know of another where one partner got ownership of a small business after a divorce, but had no idea how to handle personal or business taxes/paperwork/etc. Had never done much more than sign their name under tax records, or whatever - and suddenly had to figure out all of that on their own.
Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
#5The big problem with this that I don't have a good answer to... we've been told to use a password manager and have it secured with a long passphrase... and now we write down the username/passphrase on a piece of paper or somewhere else easily accessible - how to adequately secure that?
Maybe encrypt the passphrase under an m of n scheme and distribute to family & friends that you can trust to not collaborate unless you are truly incapacitated?
Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
#6I’ve got one of these in 1Password that is shared with my wife. It’s a great idea.
When my mom passed away 18 years ago, we looked high and low for every paper and file to help my dad start to become competent with the household finances. It was a big challenge at an already challenging time.
Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
#7The big problem with this that I don't have a good answer to... we've been told to use a password manager and have it secured with a long passphrase... and now we write down the username/passphrase on a piece of paper or somewhere else easily accessible - how to adequately secure that? Maybe encrypt the passphrase under an m of n scheme and distribute to family & friends that you can trust to not collaborate unless y…
The answer is shamir's secret sharing algorithm.
Give a chunk of your password to N friends who you trust, with instructions to recombine it.
Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
#8I’ve got one of these in 1Password that is shared with my wife. It’s a great idea. When my mom passed away 18 years ago, we looked high and low for every paper and file to help my dad start to become competent with the household finances. It was a big challenge at an already challenging time.
One weird problem I learned of is that you shouldn't store your will in your safety deposit box, because it will be tied up in legal wrangling when it is needed the most.
Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
#9The big problem with this that I don't have a good answer to... we've been told to use a password manager and have it secured with a long passphrase... and now we write down the username/passphrase on a piece of paper or somewhere else easily accessible - how to adequately secure that? Maybe encrypt the passphrase under an m of n scheme and distribute to family & friends that you can trust to not collaborate unless y…
LastPass has a reasonable solution to this - your trusted person can request access, and you have a configurable amount of time to decline.
Re: Cheat sheet for if I'm gone
#10The big problem with this that I don't have a good answer to... we've been told to use a password manager and have it secured with a long passphrase... and now we write down the username/passphrase on a piece of paper or somewhere else easily accessible - how to adequately secure that? Maybe encrypt the passphrase under an m of n scheme and distribute to family & friends that you can trust to not collaborate unless y…
Actually LastPass has a solution to this they call Emergency Access. You set up loved ones, heirs, colleagues etc with their own LastPass account, and at any time they can challenge your account. After a given (variable) waiting period, if you do not cancel their challenge, the credentials in your account revert to their account. The credentials are inherited. In the case of your own cheat sheet (I have something similar), you can save the actual cheat sheet as an attachment to a Note saved in LastPass. Every now and then we test it, and it works great.