Insights
Practical articles on household resilience, preparedness, and the domains of risk that sit between your existing advisors.
Medical Preparedness & Physical Readiness
The First Seven Minutes
Every household plan has the same first step: call 911. The record says the ambulance is about seven minutes out, longer in the country, and that the most common preventable death from injury happens faster than that. The gap belongs to whoever is already in the room. It is closable in one evening, for free.
November 9, 2026Read article
Communications Independence
The Sunny-Day Outage
Most families have one communications plan, and it lives in the phone in their pocket. The record says that plan fails on sunny days too: and the fix is a card, a meeting place and a habit, not a purchase.
October 1, 2026Read article
Home Infrastructure & Supply Readiness
The Water Pattern
The first house water taught me about was my own: and the lesson it left in my floor is the same one written across every quiet leak and every city-scale outage since: nobody was watching the place where the failure happens.
September 1, 2026Read article
Mobility & Evacuation Readiness
Twenty Minutes to Leave
A neighbour called me minutes after a tree came through his house. He did not need an insurance agent. He needed someone to tell him whether it was safe to go back inside, and in what order to do things: and he had nothing packed.
August 21, 2026Read article
Family Protocols & Crisis Coordination
The Drills Everybody Complained About
Rick Rescorla made nearly 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees rehearse an evacuation they thought was unnecessary. What made the difference was not the plan: it was that the plan had been run.
July 30, 2026Read article