THE VIDEO SHELF · personal risk preparedness
Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness)
Deviant Ollam gives a long talk on risk and preparedness: get a lawyer, passport, locksmith and other resources before you need them. It covers practical steps to build defenses against serious problems in life.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a thorough preparedness talk, and cited for specifics such as lawyers, password managers and gun ownership.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- DeviantOllam
- Topic
- personal risk preparedness
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Deviant Ollam recently did a talk covering this, entitled "lawyer, passport, locksmith, gun. a talk about risk and preparedness". [VIDEO] I don't have a tl;dr, but it's worth an hour of your time.
myself248 on Hacker News · 2023-06
In Ask HN: What do you put in a “in case of death” file?Yeah, 100% this. Deviant Ollam talks about something like this (though maybe a bit more high stakes (maybe not)) in his talk here about risk preparedness I found really interesting: [VIDEO]
_rs on Hacker News · 2023-03
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