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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 14, 2025

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What's your plan ... E? Maybe F. Yeah, F is better.

Whats your Plan F?

By Plan F, I mean the Plan you have for your life if everything goes to shit, but not by some horrible tragedy outside of your control. A house-fire, a weird accident -- these things you recover from with some combination of insurance, help from friends and family, and outright charity.

Plan F is closer to; "My ice cream business was going great! But then my business partner - who I knew used to deal a little coke - decided to commit insurance fraud and I'm broke."

For me, I think I'm on the periphery of a semi-hostile / hazardous area that has some sort of amazing natural resource. There's always work for a western / American "fixer" here. Logisics middle man. Plausible deniability bro. Even just a scout for hyper-aggressive capital deployment.

So, what's your Plan F?

It strongly depends on what actually caused me to end up in such dire straits. Was it insufficient care taken when anonymizing patient details land me in front of a patient tribunal and strip me off my license? Did the UK succumb to the rage virus? Did the NHS finally crumble?

Usually, my backstop is coming back to India. Working with my dad and taking the reins. Looking for a job elsewhere. If I'm done with training by then, I could probably make a decent life for myself as a shrink, if not, well I suppose it's hitting the books and preparing for some other exam. I'm pretty good at that, even if it's hardly my preferred way of passing the time.