Cheatsheets home

Risk and preparedness cheat sheets

The theme of this section is measuring the risk before buying the gear. The micromort dashboard puts driving, surgery, skydiving and childbirth on one scale. The parent's threat model ranks what actually hurts children (vehicles, water, unsecured firearms, falls) against what parents fear. The security theater audit grades juice jacking, RFID skimming and hotel safes as real, edge case or theater.

Once the ranking is honest, the preparation pages are short: a 72-hour and two-week kit built from the emergencies you will actually face, a vehicle kit for breakdowns and winter, what a home safe rating really buys you, and Kearny's nuclear fallout guidance updated for today. Celestial navigation is here because it is the position-finding method that still works when everything electronic is gone.

10 references filed under Risk & Preparedness. Most read right now: The Actual Risk Dashboard: What Kills People, in Micromorts; Celestial Navigation: Find Your Position Without GPS; How to Survive Nuclear Fallout: Kearny's Guide, Modernized.

Start here

  1. The Actual Risk Dashboard: What Kills People, in MicromortsEveryday risks on one scale, in micromorts
  2. Prepper Gear vs. Reality: What Emergencies Actually RequireRank your real emergencies, then build the kit
  3. How Burglars Break In — and What Stops ThemSourced from burglar interviews and BJS data

Press ⌘K or / to search section headings.

205 references · 15 fields · 1977 sections indexed · 1541 cross-links Last change: wordpress-to-static: reflect the fleet's move to Cloudflare… just now Reviewed this week: 12 2,389 views/day Trending: 8 Frontier AI Labs Compared… · Starlink Satellite Anatomy… · AI Coding Agents Compared…

Every sheet here is produced by a governed Claude Code pipeline: a version-controlled spec as acceptance criteria, primary-source research, a self-verification gate, and a public git audit trail. Read how it is built or browse the source on GitHub.

The map draws itself with JavaScript, which is off. The grid below lists every sheet, and each sheet's detail view names its neighbours.

Drag to pan, scroll to zoom, double-click to reset. Click a node to open its detail. Colour is category; size is how much it is read this month.

Get new references and build notes

Occasional email when a new reference ships or the pipeline changes. No spam, no tracking, unsubscribe anytime.

↑↓ moveenter openg then g/m/p lensesc close

Keyboard

⌘K / Ctrl K / /
Open the search palette
↑ ↓ enter
Move and open inside results
esc
Close the palette or the drawer
g then g
Grid lens
g then m
Map lens
g then p
Paths
t
Toggle theme
?
This map