Dayo O

Notes on buying a business, thinking in systems, and building a life with no single point of failure. Cybersecurity by day. Arsenal always

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I spent 8 years designing systems where no single failure takes everything down.Then I looked at my own life. One job. One income. One visa. One country's worth of options.I'd built the exact thing I get paid to prevent.Quick version for the non-nerds: a single point of failure is the one part of a system that, if it breaks, breaks all of it, in manufacturing this is similar to a “ bottleneck”.Good architects hunt these down and kill them. You keep a second one of everything that matters, you build a highly distributed system.
Took me too long to realize that isn't only an engineering rule.

Start with the job.
One employer is a single point of failure. If it goes, everything attached to it goes too. So I stopped treating my career as the plan and started treating it as one leg of the plan. Kept the job, started searching for a business to buy at the same time.Same move with immigration.I ran two green card tracks at once for a stretch. It was more expensive,my friends called it an overkill. Overkill is just redundancy that hasn't paid off yet.

It even changed what I'll buy.
I won't touch a business where all the important knowledge lives in the owner's head. That's key-person risk. A single point of failure with a pulse.
The thing I spent a decade designing out of networks and cloud infra is the first thing I check for in a company.

Money's no different.
I don't run my finances on willpower. Willpower fails you on the exact day you need it most. So I automated the parts that matter and took myself out of the loop. Boring beats heroic.

Here's what people miss.
They read all this as fear. It isn't. You don't build backups for things you're planning to walk away from. You build them for what you intend to keep.
Redundancy is a long bet, not a flinch.

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@MooreRMFC Courtois isn’t getting ahead of Rays

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@LogyBack Gotta be that Liverpool performance,let Salah equalize

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@housleyd No one wants to drive 30 mins to an airport, 20 mins thru TSA all to fly 1 hr then another 30 mins away from the airport

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@akinalabi @mrlurvy lol as if na coronation not an election. The people don’t have a say

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@harladeen_ @Adebusayi12 This is the only way, otherwise the shock wey go catch you

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@Caastro225 @Luca_RL10 The Greek god Kostas Manolas

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@tommysantos14 Disagree with this. Politicians are like dogs that have tasted blood and now don’t want to stop. All these issues are leverages that’ll be kept in the back pocket and repealed as leverage points

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@cartoon_magoo Brian Kemp

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@Director_bello 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Even Tinubu wouldn’t do this

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just wow

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@MattBoxer94 Their loss would be monumental

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@AriNilla_ Hi Susie,are you by any chance a weed kingpin working with a duke and the daughter of Bobby Glass?

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@greendragonhq Andy Beshear is quite a disappointment
Should have been a shoo in for the 2028 ticket but somehow nuked his chances. My money is on an Ossoff/Kloubochar ticket

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@mitchellvii Cope

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@BWLawal Honestly this is the most surprising result. I don’t even know what Gina looks like.
I can’t believe anyone can beat Abbott.that man is a principality

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@Tope_soft Yo! Dems are flipping Texas bigly

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Gregg Abbott is out ,wow

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Can’t believe Texas has been flipped

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@IanSZNian Petit

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@WinnieRioba Okay so Kilishi is actually s-tier, you work your way up. Even some of us Nigerians struggle with the intensity and heat