Seth Godin recently posted a piece on the inevitable demise of printed books. It scares me a little.
I’m not scared of the demise of the printed book as a route-to-market for a fiction author. I’ve been expecting—anticipating, even—that for years now, and I don’t think it’s something any author should be concerned about.
I’m scared of Black Swans.
How many backups do you have of your data? The pictures, letters, financial records, emails and all the other things that just exist in digital forms? Maybe you’ve got some key files synchronised to Dropbox or iCloud. Maybe you’ve bought some local backup in the form of a NAS or USB hard-drive. Perhaps you’re bit more paranoid, and you’ve also got a network or cloud backup solution, like one of these. Or you might not trust a single company, maybe you’ve got multiple network backups with different providers distribut...