Curriculum: Home-Front Resilience

Subject: Curriculum: Home-Front Resilience

4 chapters

Chapters

  1. Phase 1 (Months 1–2): Offline-first computing
    spoken word poetic, piano jazz · 4:26
    A two-month grounding in offline-first computing, showing how to break free from cloud dependency by setting up local storage, self-hosted tools, and sync systems that keep working when the internet doesn't. Listeners learn to build a resilient digital toolkit that never leaves them staring at a spinning gray circle when it matters most.
  2. Phase 2 (Months 3–4): Communications without infrastructure
    acoustic guitar, lyrical music, hand clapping, no drums · 3:52
    Learn how to build a low-power Meshtastic radio mesh from scratch—soldering nodes, setting encrypted channels, and mapping line-of-sight range across porch, shed, and hilltop—so your household can stay connected for half a mile even when cell towers go dark.
  3. Phase 3 (Months 5–6): Designing for degradation
    acoustic guitar, lyrical music, hand clapping, no drums · 4:02
    Explore what happens when the plan itself gets stress-tested—hunting down every hidden "assume" clause that quietly depends on power, connectivity, and infrastructure staying intact. Listeners learn how to redesign systems for graceful failure, building redundancy and backup logic into a resilience strategy that's slept through too many untested winters.
  4. Habits
    melodic piano, duet male female · 3:56
    A husband-and-wife duet walks through the discipline of running a biannual power-down drill, cutting the breaker and living by flashlight and radio to rebuild real household readiness before an actual outage ever hits.