Cover of the English edition, When the Everyday Ends by Timothy Walsh, showing a forest road beneath a misty sky

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When the Everyday Ends

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When the Everyday Ends

Preparedness is about what you have, what you understand and what you do when circumstances change.

When the Everyday Ends is a reasoning guide for readers who want to understand household preparedness and make considered decisions.

The book explores what happens when things normally taken for granted begin to disappear: running water, a warm home, access to food and information, functioning hygiene, continuity of care and the ability to move around as usual.

Above all, however, it is about the person within those systems.

How do you prioritise when everything needs solving at once? How do you distinguish what matters from what merely feels urgent? When is a sufficiently good solution better than waiting for a perfect one?

The 70 percent principle

KrisKompass is built around the idea that complete information and perfect circumstances are rarely available when they are needed most.

The goal is preparedness that is good enough to use and adapt.

It is to understand enough, have sufficiently good options and retain the ability to adapt when reality changes.