Apprenticeship Script 2025
Steve's Distillation - May 28, 2024 - [1]. Gemini refactor - Steve May 28, 2024 Script- Feb 2025 script - [2]
- Video_Scripts#2025
Tue Feb 11, 2025
- Take existing scripts through Gemini - use a mashup of the 3 docs above as separate wiki pages.
Treatment: Call out for the big picture no holds barred, invite long term commitment and lifelong learning, seek huge ambition in humility for service and stewardship to serve the world. Level the playing field and create abundance.
Script -Do you want to create a new civilization? One based on true collaboration, a democratic society, and a level playing field with transparency and abundance? With the world changing faster than ever before, we are up to the challenge.
Welcome to the world of open source ecology. In 2008, we came up with the concept of the Global Village Construction Set - a set of 50 tools and machines needed for a modern standard of living - a civilization in a box that can be replicated inexpensively anywhere in the world. We are now taking this to the finish line by 2028 - our stated 20 year timeline. We invite you to be a part of this process.
I finished my 20s with a ph.d. in plasma physics - and discovered - i was useless. I had no practical skills. I was certainly not going to work in any a soul crushing job. So i started a farm, in Missouri. Since then, We prototyped dozens of the global village construction set tools and machines, after almost 20 years of this civilization reboot experiment, we are starting a school. A college-grade program in civilization construction. We discovered that the scarcity mindset, not technology, is the limiting factor in civilization's progress.
An abundance mindset is not a hippie ideal. It is a rigorous discipline of rapid learning, collaborative design, and a lifelong commitment to level the playing field for everyone. This carries with it a deep purpose. Our goal is open source blueprints for civilization - everything from a home, a tractor, and a spaceship. The goal is abundance for everybody - the final transition of humanity from a scarcity mindset to a world of open collaboration.
It will not be easy. So we are calling out for you - at the point of high school or equivalent education - to join a community of transformers and future stewards. The stakes are high - with civilization on its path to the technological singularity - we envision a humanistic singularity - for civilization to prosper. That means, we finally learn to share, as a species.
We do this by a work-study program - a commitment of 4 years. The program involves 40% of the time working - building affordable, ecological housing - and 60% in learning how to learn, learning how to design, and learning how to be a full human. It is a mix of hands-on and design learning, an interdisciplinary approach where we practice all that we learn about. This is our route to rapid learning. This is like a mixture of collegeand a startup, though you'll be safe from a short startup runway because we have proven the economics of efficient house construction - as promised in our kickstarter for the Open Building Institute.
We build Seed Eco-Homes 2 days of the week - innovative and incremental housing with solar power as a standard option - with each build adding new features and releasing everything open source.
One day of the week - we learn design. How to design homes, and about architectures of all technology and institutions - as after all - we are exposing our students to understand as much of the building blocks of a sound civilization as possible. On Thursday - we learn how to learn. This means how to form accurate mental models and to problemsolve across all areas and disciplines of human endeavor. The goal is to understand basic, underlying patterns - through a complex systems appraoch - where everything is connected and problemsolving requires an integrated approach.
And finally - we learn how to be human. This means first, understanding human possibility and capacity across mental, physical, and spiritual fields. Then understanding multiple intelligences, building character, and cultivating a mindset of lifelong learning and stewardship in the world.