Initial Assessment JET: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| Line 50: | Line 50: | ||
* Generally trusting people and believing they can always be better. | * Generally trusting people and believing they can always be better. | ||
* Gaming, this takes a lot of time (One of the only recreational outlets) | * Gaming, this takes a lot of time (One of the only recreational outlets) | ||
* "Pie-In-The-Sky" outlook a lot of the time | |||
==Now comes a bunch of specific interests questions. Please rate 1-5 - 1 is least, 5 is most== | ==Now comes a bunch of specific interests questions. Please rate 1-5 - 1 is least, 5 is most== | ||
Revision as of 16:57, 29 May 2021
OSE Apprenticeship - Initial Assessment
How we interpret reality - the mental models of reality that we form - determine how we act and what we think is possible. Thus, it is important to create accurate mental models - so we don't cause trouble in the world - and so we can live to our fullest potential. This survey starts with skills/goals assessments - and moves on to assessement of possibilities (as related to the mental models that we hold) - to be revisited and studied later to see how we change and grow as a result of the OSE experience. This is thus an important baseline, and it should be open for anyone to review and contribute to in the name of transparency and growth. The questions here explore your current understanding and perceptions regarding open collaboration, tranformative work, possibility of change, and corresponding scales and time frames. This is all about gaining clarity on creating the reality that we want to build as our future goals.
What is your name?
- Joshua
What specific technical skills do you look forward to learning the most during the Apprenticeship?
- Building the Eco-Home and learning the entire design/build process. I've been researching and watching other go off-grid and build their homes. I also see that Intentional Communities are able to work toward being mostly self-sufficient.
- Finding out more about the GVCS and the engineering behind them. I hope to be able to participate in working on some of the machines and replicate them one day. Learning how to do basic welding will be a valuable skill.
- Being able to combine my programming knowledge with hardware to build new electronics and possibly even smaller appliances eventually. Seeing what is possible is inspiring and being immersed in an in this environment will help me realize my potential in this area.
- Working on the aquaponics garden and working on improving the overall ecology of the campus. I've been into researching regenerative agriculture recently and one day I would like to take on a project to regenerate a plot of land. In addition, working to build a community or a village with like-minded individuals is something that of interest to me.
I want you to tell me 4-6 things that you expect that you will get from the apprenticeship, and please tell me 4-6 things that you will teach me or the group.
What specific soft skills, as opposed to technical skills, do you look forward to developing most during the apprenticeship?
What are your larger aspirations for knowhow and skills that you are interested in gaining in the apprenticeship?
The apprenticeship is a chance to explore peak performance on many levels. Soft and hard skills, technology, business, psychology, physical health, self-determination, and other big picture areas
What skills and knowledge are you interested in getting throughout your life? What would you consider success in your learnings when you ask at the end of your life?
What are your known areas of strength - skills and capacities - both organizationally, business wise, and personally?
Skills
- Generally have a well-rounded skill set and foundational knowledge of many aspects of Information Technology
- Networking, Security, Programming, Infrastructure, Database, Data Analytics
- Understanding of and other Electronics. Have worked with Arduino, Adafruit Microcontroller and Raspberry Pi
- Understanding of basic hydroponics, soil science, plant nutrition
- Basic graphic design, video editing, live-streaming setup, blogging
- Technical documentation, project management, digital marketing
- Basics of Business Administration
- Creating proposals, estimates and other client/customer documentation
- Exercise, training, basic nutrition, aspiring herbalist
Personal
- Multi-disciplinarian/Generalizing Specialist
- Kine-aesthetic Learner
- Patient
- Egalitarian
- Fluid
What about your weaknesses that you would like to improve?
- I start projects and endeavors but end up not finishing them
- I can take things personally, but I have gotten much better at understanding where people are coming from and why.
- I can understand Math when presented with a practical example, but some formulas/concepts don't make sense to me because I can't apply them anywhere in the real world. I also know that this problem is limited by my own understanding as well.
- I can overlook details and practicality especially when I'm enthusiastic about a project or process
- Staying in a comfortable place or situation when change is needed
What weaknesses are you not particularly interested in improving?
- Starting up of many projects (Need to finish them though).
- Being somewhat ADD/scattered at times.
- Generally trusting people and believing they can always be better.
- Gaming, this takes a lot of time (One of the only recreational outlets)
- "Pie-In-The-Sky" outlook a lot of the time
Now comes a bunch of specific interests questions. Please rate 1-5 - 1 is least, 5 is most
- What is your level of interest in mechatronics? 4
- Systems Transformation 4
- CAD 4
- Collaboration 4
- Peak performance 4
- Psychology 4
- Spirituality 5
- Systems thinking 4
- Building Things 5
- Engineering/Calculations 4
- Entrepreneurship 4
- Marketing 3
- Mining 4
- Graphic Design / Visual Arts 3
- Computer languages / coding 4
- Microcontrollers 4
- Robotics 4
- Geography 3
- History 2
- Video production 3
- CNC Machines 5
- 3D Printing 5
- Research 4
- Genetics 4
- Artificial Intelligence 4
- Spaceflight and exploration 4
- Writing/copywriting/storytelling 3
- Life extension 4
- Applied chemistry 5
- Meditation 4
- Health, medicine, and exercise 5
- Medical technology 4
- Electronics 5
- Integrated Agriculture 5
- Aquaponics 5
- Housing/house construction 5
- Math 4
- Permaculture 4
- Terraforming - earth works and water works for improving the environment 5
- Aviation 5
- Event organizing 4
- Public speaking 3
- Art 3
- Music 2
- Metallurgy and hot metal processing? 4
- Theater and performance 2
How do you picture your collaboration with OSE would look like after you finish the apprenticeship?
Discuss how you would like to collaborate after finishing the Apprenticeship, whether by working at the OSE Campus, or in your own enterprise, or other ideas
How do you think the apprenticeship will help you collaborate in your work life in general?
What specific skills will the apprenticeship sharpen for you in order to facilitate future collaboration wherever you work?
What obstacles do you currently see that could get in the way of your success in the apprenticeship? How do you plan to address them?
What specific skills do you look forward to learning the most during the apprenticeship?
Do you have other remote collaborators that you can partner with to assist you during the apprenticeship? Explain.
In your estimation, how long do you think it will take you to learn to build the Seed Eco-Home from scratch, to the point that you are comfortable building one independently? Which parts of the build are you / are you not / interested in learning?
Are you interested in learning how to source, purchase, and substitute materials for the Seed Eco-Home from common, off-the shelf sources?
This skill leads to capacity of organizing build events, not just doing builds.
Are you interested in learning how to run 24 person or larger swarm build crews on the Seed Eco-Home to add this to your skill set of what you can do after the Apprenticeship?
Are you interested in learning the capacity to plan and execute Seed Eco-Homes from start to finish - as a build manager or executive? This is more the executive track - where you gain the capacity to run a full service Seed Eco-Home build operation.
Which of your strengths or skills do you think will help you succeed with the apprenticeship and life after the apprenticeship?
Considering the technical definition of open source hardware, please describe how open source hardware implies 'economic freedom'? See OSHWA definition and DIN Spec 3105.
See more at https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Hardware_Association
Why does OSE not use Creative Commons-Non-Commercial licenses?
In 3 months of time from start (mid point), what would you see as successful progress for you within the apprenticeship?
Within 6 months of time, what would you consider successful progress for you in the apprenticeship?
What does open collaboration and working openly mean to you?
How much value do you want to generate or create every year?
This question aims to probe into the magnitude of your social entrepreneurial ambition. Express your answer in current US dollars.
Can you identify any blocks that are preventing you from accomplishing all that you want in your life today?
Would you be interested in learning the skill set to become a director of one of OSE's 40 acre Campuses - or your own Campus - such as Factor e Farm or similar - in the future? OSE will need site stewards in the future, and the OSE Apprenticeship can be a step to OSE site stewards or stewards of allied facilities. This could be various ownership scenarios such a collaboratively owned facility between OSE and you/other groups, land trusts, private-public hybrid structures, blockchain-accounted structures, etc.
- Yes I would be interested in standing up an extension of OSE or forming a sort of federation between different groups, organizations or companies. This is one of the main projects I would like to take on but I'm still unsure about logistics mainly. In order to effect larger change, I believe more people will need to collaborate together outside of the current economic structure.
If you are interested in building a land-based facility/enterprise of some sort in the future - what do you envision this being?
- I envision this being a village, off-grid town or other "autonomous" living community. In order to sustain finances and resources, we could trade with local communities and at least provide almost all of the necessary resources within the federation(OSE and other allies) to survive. There would need to be a central planning platform for projects and for resources needed/produced which the various entities work by. Transportation/Shipping of resources would need to be something further discussed as this would still require some reliance on the current postal system(Internal Supply Chain).
What pressing world issues would you like to work on in your life, assuming that you would have the full independence/resources to work on them full time?
- Slavery
- Renewable Energy
- Medicine for Profit(Fixed mainly by preventative care and a natural, holistic approach to medicine)
- Desertification/Deforestation
- Resource Scarcity
- Consequences of Colonialism/Neocolonialism(Smaller "governments" collaborating together and that are composed of generally like-minded individuals > Large, looming institutions that are essentially forced upon people out of "necessity")
If you were to write your own job description for what you would want to do with your life - what would that be?
Based on your last question, could you envision how collaborating with OSE right after the Apprenticeship would help you meet your longer term goals?
What monthly pay would you like to attain once you finish the Apprenticeship? What would be your ideal source of revenue?
This will depend on what you are capable of learning and what skills you have already?
If you collaborate with OSE on building Seed Eco-Homes, or build them more independenly, what monthly pay would you be interested in attaining for your work in building Seed Eco-Homes?
What pay would you call a success, in your first month after the Apprenticeship? After 1 year? Also state in which country, as pay may be worth a different amount in different countries.
What tracks (builder - R&D - manager - organizer - executive) are most interesting to you? Which roles would you like to learn during the Apprenticeship - Builder - architect/builder - running crews - organizing build events - business development - marketing - R&D - facility replication - supporting machines, etc?
For the last question, can you sketch out what the revenue model would look like for you?
How do you think your involvement with the OSE Apprenticeship would be relevant to solving pressing world issues? Be specific if you can point to specific points.
What do you think is missing most in OSE's capacity towards delivering regenerative solutions at scale according to the OSE vision of collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance?
What do you think are OSE's strengths, and how can we improve them?
What do you think are OSE's weak points, and how can you help us address them?
How do you envision that the collaborative enterprise development assets (open design, open enterprise models, collaboratively-generated marketing knowhow, etc) will help you in your own enterprise if you decide to start one? Do you think that these assets be directly translatable to your own enterprise?
Do you have any reservations whatsover with respect to publishing all revenue models, enterprise plans, business analyses, marketing assets, and other supporting assets openly to facilitate startup by others? Please discuss any reservations or operational challenges that you can foresee.
Do you think that distributed market substitution is feasible? What do you think will be the greatest challenge for its attainment?
See Distributed_Market_Substitution
What do you think would be the greatest challenge to creating successful distributive enterprises?
What does a new operating system for humanity look like to you? Who do you think has enunciated the most clear vision of what that looks like, and what can we implement readily?
What is your typical flow state percentage on a given day?
See Superfluidity for a definition
How would you assess your skill of empathy?
Use scale of 1-5
How would you assess your skill of negotiation?
See Never Split the Difference for cutting edge work.
How would you assess your skill of sublimation or antifragility?
See Sublimation. 1=never heard of it, 5=I'm quite antifragile.
How would you asesss your ability to adapt or be resilient in face of various stressors?
What unique abilities can you teach others in our groups?
What important qustions regarding Regenterprise did this initial assessment not ask but should have asked?
Anything else that you would like to add that would help you or the team grow?
What do you think are the prerequisites for someone becoming a social entrepreneur?
What do you think are the prerequisites for someone becoming a Movement Entrepreneur?
Do you think that anyone could become a movement entrepreneur if they wanted to?
How interested are you in solving pressing world issues?
Do you think that Pressing World Issues are solvable? How would you approach taking a given pressing world issue and solving it? How much impact do you think you can attain in your life?
Please think about how the Apprenticeship and Summer X group will grow in their collaborative skill set, and paint a picture of how our collaborative capacity for genius will evolve.
This is a visioning question, ignore if it's too taxing.