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Digital Legacy

What Is a Digital Legacy, and Why Does Yours Already Exist?

Everyone alive today leaves one. Very few people decide what it should say.

A digital legacy is the record of a life that outlives the person who made it. Here is what it contains, who inherits it, and how to shape it deliberately rather than by accident.

25 July 2026 · 7 min read

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