3463: [Part 2] Protecting Your Assets in a Digital World by Darrow Kirkpatrick of Can I Retire Yet on Data Safety

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🗓️ 19 February 2026

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3463: Darrow Kirkpatrick explores the hidden risks of managing wealth in a digital age, from rare system failures to physical disasters that could wipe out essential documents. He offers clear, actionable strategies to keep your finances resilient like diversifying accounts, securing digital backups, and protecting vital records at home and in the cloud. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.caniretireyet.com/protecting-your-assets-in-a-digital-world/ Quotes to ponder: "The simplest way to protect yourself against computer glitches may be to diversify your assets around at multiple institutions." "The most reliable way to protect your important documents these days is to convert as many of them as possible to electronic form and save them in the cloud." "If you’ve worked hard in life it only makes sense to take some reasonable measures to protect what you’ve achieved." Episode references: Sentry Safes: https://www.sentrysafe.com Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.5	digital world, part two by Darrow Kirkpatrick of can I retire yet.com. Number three, computer glitches.
1:25.2	It can be sobering to realize that the vast majority of your wealth doesn't exist in any physical
1:30.0	form. It's simply a series of bits on a computer somewhere. The internet cloud. Although all
1:36.8	major banks and brokerages have elaborate backup and disaster recovery systems, reality has a way
1:42.1	of thwarting the best laid plans. Though the probability is
1:46.1	low, one of my biggest security concerns is the potential for a longer-lasting computer glitch in
1:51.5	the financial services industry, a software bug, hardware failure, or networking issue that damages
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