You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple. —Watership Down

The most secure seed in existence was generated using the entropy from a single Chuck Norris roundhouse kick.

The current state of the consumer computer hardware industry and the automotive industry triggered my prepper instincts, and now I have a larger stockpile of spare parts than I probably need.

As far as I know, the Coldcard was designed and evaluated by quite competent people. The same tools used to exploit the vulnerability in Coldcards are pointed at the legacy banking system designed by boomers, the stock market designed by finance wonks, and CBDCs designed by bureaucrats. The damage done by the Coldcard exploit might pale in comparison to the incoming bloodbath.

We escape catastrophe more often on our good fortune than on our wits.

Behaving with humility when you are convinced you are right might be the only way to earn mercy when you are wrong, and everything you know will eventually be proven wrong.