Welcome to Orientation to the Village — a calm, self-paced 60–90 minute walk through the people, tools, and rhythms of Kaua‘i Digital Village.
This required, non-graded first course helps every new villager feel grounded, oriented, and ready to contribute before diving into projects.
🌺 Visual Storytelling in the Village is a self-paced Role Track for photographers, videographers, and visual creators capturing the spirit of Kaua‘i, guiding you through five Waypoints from gallery building to licensing and print sales.
Set aside 35–45 minutes to sharpen your craft and share your work with aloha and integrity.
Welcome to Service Provider Essentials — your guide to offering repair, consulting, creative, or professional services with clarity and confidence in the Kauai Digital Village.
In just 25–35 minutes, you'll set up your service home, master pricing & invoicing, and learn how to communicate with clients like a true island pro.
E komo mai! This course introduces our village to lā‘au lapa‘au, the traditional Hawaiian practice of healing with plants. We'll learn the cultural protocols, identify healing plants growing right here on Kaua‘i, and practice safe, respectful ways to care for our ‘ohana using this ancestral knowledge. This is not a replacement for medical care, but a way to reconnect with the wisdom of our kūpuna and the ‘āina that surrounds us.
Aloha and welcome! This course was built for Anini residents and visiting guests who want to explore our shallow reef flat and tide pools safely and respectfully. You'll learn the rhythms of the tide, how to snorkel without harming coral, how to identify the fish and invertebrates you'll meet, and how to help kokua (care for) this reef so it thrives for generations.
Travel through 5 Waypoints at your own pace and arrive ready to trade with integrity in the Kauai Digital Village.
This practical, self-paced guide (20–30 minutes) walks you through uploading, organizing, sharing, and cleaning up your files within the village’s digital space.
Build Your Own Personal Cloud takes you on a hands-on journey from a simple hosts file tweak to a fully containerized, production-grade home server powered by Docker, Traefik, and Pi-hole.
In just 6–8 self-paced hours, you'll master networking basics, media & productivity services, reverse proxies, network-wide DNS, and advanced monitoring & security.
I have spent three decades fixing computers on Kauaʻi and the last several years automating the systems behind them. The most useful thing I have learned is not how to automate — it is when not to.
This is a free, self-paced course, about 90 minutes end to end. It contains no product pitch and no tool tutorial. It teaches the judgement that has to come first: how to see the work you actually do, how to test whether automation would help it, and how to design for the day the automation breaks — because it will.
You will finish with a written readiness plan for one real task of your own, and a Robot Ready badge you can keep.
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You have decided a task is worth automating. This course takes it the rest of the way — from a repetitive job you do by hand to something that runs on its own, tells you when it has stopped, and can be handed to somebody else.
Roughly 75 minutes, self-paced, free. It is tool-agnostic on purpose: the pattern here works whether you build it in a shell script, a no-code automation platform, a spreadsheet macro, or a scheduler on a server. I care about the shape, not the syntax.
You finish by building one real automation of your own and writing up how it fails. Completing the course earns the First Automation badge.
Recommended first: Robot Readiness — it teaches how to choose the task. This course assumes you have chosen one.
An AI agent is a language model that has been given tools and permission to use them. That combination is genuinely useful and genuinely dangerous, and almost everything written about it is either sales copy or panic.
This course is neither. It is about ninety minutes, free, self-paced, and it covers the three things that decide whether an agent helps you or quietly costs you: how you brief it, what you let it touch, and how you check work that always sounds correct.
I run agents in production — voice agents that answer a phone, agents that classify and file media, agents that draft and publish. Everything here comes from that, including the parts where it went wrong.
Completing the course earns the Agent Handler badge.
