Marcin's Initial Apprenticeship Assessment
4 Zones of Possibility for Learning Goals
- What I know we can learn - mastery of Seed Eco-Home Build in terms of various build optimizations over the plain ability to build. But that's not enough if the business side is not developed. We can optimize a lot, and I know I can teach the crew how to make improvements.
- WHat I think we can learn - Mastery of the marketing side - how to promote and sell the product effectively so that financial freedom is a byproduct. I think I can teach the product optimization to the point that the economics become robust. I think we can also start producing some plastic lumber.
- What I think would be too much - To build with CEB now - that may take another year until we perfect the workflow with soil mixer. Or training 100 builders - that would require concentrated marketing effort.
- What I know is too much - Training 1700 builders. We would need much more infrastructure to do that. See Seed Eco-Home value generation - Economic_value_of_the_GVCS_-_size_of_related_global_markets#Current_OSE_Valuation
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?
Yes, this would be very important for robust economics to happen.
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?
Everything for me as a movement entrepreneur.
For the last question, can you sketch out what the revenue model would look like for you?
5 day build time for 500 hours, $50k revenue. $25k for workers to meet the standard 50/50 percent ratio in a business.
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?
Yes, that's our value proposition.
If you are interested in building a land-based facility/enterprise of some sort in the future - what do you envision this being?
An integrated facility, a village to reinvent the world like Gaviotas, except open source and integrated to all aspects of civilization up to semiconductors and new institutions.
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.
Yes, that allows for economic independence.
Are you interested in learning how to source, purchase, and substitute materials for the Seed Eco-Home from common, off-the shelf sources?
Yes, that's part of it.
How interested are you in producing other OSE machines, as opposed to Seed Eco-Homes, after you graduate?
I envision a microfactory capacity to produce housing, tractors, 3D printers, cars, consumer goods, materials, and just about everything else that an open source Walmart would produce locally from local materials and global collaboration.
Are you really trying for a career change, or do you have an easy way out at the end by going back to what you were doing before?
I just ate a whole packet of red tablets.
Do you have other remote collaborators that you can partner with to assist you during the apprenticeship? Explain.
Paul, Elijah so far. Maybe a publicity push can get some more people involved. Can call upon others, but this is still the thing where we need to solve for people showing up. The $50k house, taken down to say $25k in materials with 3D printing and other optimization - can do a lot. We still need an irresistable product to have people show up, and that's where the Incentive Challenge comes in - so yes, we aim for attracting at least 1000 co-developers as part of an incentive challenge - a framework that constitutes replicable parallel development as shown at Core Dev Method.
What earning goal would you need to reach to shift over to a new 'career' after the Apprenticeship?
I'm already there, paid or not.
Training 100 builders and building 100 houses per year is $2.5M, but can settle for 1/6 of that by doubling next year, and every year for the next decade.
What specific technical skills do you look forward to learning the most during the Apprenticeship?
Creating new simple freeCAD design workbenches with the FreeCAD Workbenches Platform
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?
What about your weaknesses that you would like to improve?
What weaknesses are you not particularly interested in improving?
This is more a question of your mindset - how you view your strengths and weaknesses.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
Now comes a bunch of specific interests questions.
- What is your level of interest in mechatronics? Please rate 1-5 - 1 is least, 5 is most
- Systems Transformation
- CAD
- Collaboration
- Peak performance
- Psychology
- Spirituality
- Systems thinking
- Building Things
- Engineering/Calculations
- Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
- Mining
- Graphic Design / Visual Arts
- Computer languages / coding
- Microcontrollers
- Robotics
- Geography
- History
- Video production
- CNC Machines
- 3D Printing
- Research
- Genetics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Spaceflight and exploration
- Writing/copywriting/storytelling
- Life extension
- Applied chemistry
- Meditation
- Health, medicine, and exercise
- Medical technology
- Electronics
- Integrated Agriculture
- Aquaponics
- Housing/house construction
- Math
- Permaculture
- Terraforming - earth works and water works for improving the environment
- Aviation
- Event organizing
- Public speaking
- Art
- Music
- Metallurgy and hot metal processing?
- Theater and performance