I've been thinking a lot about my personal dependencies, and how I can mitigate points of failure. The mental exercise I've been going through is basically ima

I've been thinking a lot about my personal dependencies, and how I can mitigate points of failure. The mental exercise I've been going through is basically imagining Netflix's Chaos Monkey [1] running loose on my life. How can I be resiliant to data loss? Job loss? Cognitive loss? There are ways I can mitigate these risks, and some ways I can test to see if my mitigation strategies will work in practice. But how do I do that without devoting my life to it? It's nice to dream of some kind of antifragile existance going forward, but for now the easy conclusions tend to come down to the 'two is one and one is none' variety. Backup everything I can, including but certainly not limited to my data and services. [1]: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-into-wild.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...