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• unique opportunity - absolutely change your life
• collaborative - truly open collaboration that levels the playing field
• abundance - a rigorous condition of discipline and efficiency which allows radical productivity based on abundant, distributed resources
• Radical collaboration - you collaborate with 24 students on design build, you teach others, and you contribute to open documentation in the day to day. Develop methods of swarm builds that are productive and fun - because with a team, you're not doing the same thing over and over.
• Service projects - Every summer is 2 weeks - where we are true to subsidized, low income builds - where you learn the leadership to lead novice crews while building affordable housing to real clients
• Summer of Enterprise Build - we have 2.5 months vacation, and you can choose to
• Integrated Humans - we focus on you, not on technology
• Financial independence. You advance in work-study and earning potential not by a glass ceiling, but by choosing the level of responsibility that suits you - with corresponding pay.
• Housing is the single highest cost in anyone's life. By learning to build housing, you are setting yourself up for financial independence, and addressing the single largest cost in your life.
• Apply today. Application process is unique - where we hit the ground running with collaborative builds.
• Redesign civilization. This means integrated learning - how everything connects to everything. Our program is designed to teach full build ability with anywhere from basic to advanced profficiency in the 20 build trades - but you will also be exposed to design skill, and understanding of how the world words - a survey across all areas of civilization
• Experiment hands-on - we have a 1/2 acre blank slate called the Alpha Pad - an experimental area, gravel foundation pad where you can build anything that you want - while you are learning to collaborate in the integrated design-build process - and even build your own studio microhouse on site.
• Set your own pay. We do not set limits on your pay. You do- by the amount of skill that you can show competency in. We guarantee $75k starting salary from a plain Integrated Builder role if you pass the required competency of efficient productivity for a complete house build. But you are welcome to move into management - which is based on competency in build and organization.
• Collaborative design lifestyle - join a collaborative effort of good work cross-subsidized by swarm builds. Knowing how to build a house, you gain financial independence from this valuable skill - while collaborating with a global movement of open sector development - developing access to Universal Basic Assets for everyone, to level the global playing field.

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If you are unsure about going to college - we've got a program that will absolutely change your life.

We've been on the world stage with the Global Village Construction Set for more than a decade, and now we are starting a school.

We're looking for 24 young men and women to be part of a worldchaning crew - with an explicit mission to open source the blueprints for civilization.

We are offering a 4 year program, where you learn to collaborate, design, and build - a civilization that is both efficient, and humane.

We're building a collaborative, transparent, open society – a level playing field for everyone. After nearly two decades of prototyping open collaboration, design, and building, this is our next big step.

Our school teaches you how to be human, how to learn, and how to design a new civilization – all while building. We start with Seed Eco-Homes to fund the program, learning design principles and treating civilization as a modular construction set. We tackle everything from homes and machines to energy, transportation, space, microchips, and even societal institutions.

First, we focus on you. We cultivate humanity – humility, character, possibility, abundance mindset, moral intelligence, soft skills, leadership, and more. Then, we teach you how to learn – rapid learning techniques, accurate mental models, and integrated systems thinking. Finally, you'll learn how to design – houses and the rest of the technosphere. You'll be exposed to most of the working architectures of civilization - how nature, machines, organizations, and institutions work.

The practical side means building Seed Eco-Homes 2 days per week as a work-study program. Our goal is that the 24 of you and me - build complete Seed Eco-Homes - on a time scale of only 5 days. We will hire you if you can do this, at competitive pay.

This is the core of the OSE Apprenticeship - your learn radically collaborative and efficient ways to design and build. We're solving housing, meaning providing an ample supply of low-cost, high performance housing. This means we learn not only to design-build housing, but to design-build construction machines, power tools, and the materials that go into a high performance home.

That is only the beginning. We teach you financial independence - which is inevitable if you can build a complete home.

Quote:Yann LeCun, an early A.I. pioneer who is Meta’s chief A.I. scientist, said in a post on LinkedIn that people who think the takeaway from DeepSeek’s work should be that China is beating the United States at A.I. development are misreading the situation. “The correct reading is: ‘Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones,’” he said.

Want to build a new civilization? One based on collaboration, democracy, and abundance? Open Source Ecology (OSE) invites you to join our movement. We're on a 20-year mission (ending in 2028) to finalize the Global Village Construction Set – 50 tools and machines for a modern standard of living, replicable inexpensively anywhere in the world.

This isn't just about tools; it's about shifting from a scarcity to an abundance mindset through rapid learning, collaborative design, and lifelong commitment to leveling the playing field. We're building open-source blueprints for everything from homes and tractors to spaceships, aiming for universal abundance. This starts with learning how to be an integrated human, which is how we approach our learning proram

This 4-year, work-study program (40% building, 60% learning) is like a blend of university, startup, and endless possibility. You'll learn 20 building trades in the time it usually takes to learn one or two, through hands-on experience and interdisciplinary design learning. We build Seed Eco-Homes, incorporating solar power and constantly innovating. You'll learn design principles, complex systems thinking, and develop your full human potential – mental, physical, and spiritual.

Join a cohort of 24 students and graduate by building a complete house in 5 days as part of this collaborative crew. Advance to the Construction Manager Track to lead crews in collaborative builds. We will teach you how to learn, how to design, and how to be a full human. We're building a campus for 240 students, preparing you for large-scale collaborative design - so that you can practice all these skills hands-on in applied projects while you learn-by-doing in a supportive environment.

During your study, we offer a work-study program so that we teach you how to achieve financial independence. Upon graduation, we offer competency-based pay, exceeding fresh Ivy League graduate salaries, based on your skills. We're unique in our commitment to open up civilization, working towards in-house production of machines, tools, and materials using compressed earth blocks, 3D printing, and locally sourced lumber. While open-sourcing all of our enterprise blueprints. Join the collaborative economy movement!

Ready to be a transformer and future steward? The first cohort starts June 1. Apply now!