Honestly
Most damage is self-inflicted and gentle.
Nobody wakes up planning to weaken their own arrangement. It happens through small conveniences, each of which seemed fine at the time.
The corrections are equally small. Read the list, notice which one is you, fix that one.
The habit and the fix.
Password nearby
- Common habit
- Written on paper beside the card.
- Small correction
- Keep them in different places, or in a head and a card.
All three together
- Common habit
- The whole set in one drawer.
- Small correction
- Separate them. That is what three is for.
Everything on it
- Common habit
- Two hundred logins, unreadable.
- Small correction
- The few that everything else depends on.
Never re-read
- Common habit
- Written once, years ago.
- Small correction
- One read a year. Delete what is dead.
Nobody knows
- Common habit
- No note, no instruction.
- Small correction
- One page saying what it is and what to do first.
Small habits,
quietly decisive.