Seed Eco-Home Apprenticeship
About
Immersion 4 year program of learning to build anything, starting with collaborative design and building the Seed Eco-Home. By invoking a 3x10 immersion work schedule, 1 day of technical training (CAD, programming, AI, digital fabrication, and other abundance studies), and 2 days of learning how to learn starting with Moral Intelligence to drive intellectual and emotional excellence (Edge of Knowledge concept), we gain personal and professional mastery on a journey to Integrated Humanity.
This provides some level of pay like work-study typically does. This is industry standard, as 80% of all students apprarently work from 24-33 hours per week while in college. See Working Students.
Potential work-study pay could lie anywhere from outlier pay to minimum wage according to one's own pace using competency-based testing. For this, careful data collection on efficient tasking is required.
The concept is to bridge the gap between blue collar and white collar work, and the key is integration. The white collar candidate must expand to significant physical skills, and the blue collar candidate must expand to significant mental prowess. Common ground to all is moral intelligence - or empowerment to action about the state of the world - but based on accurate mental models of reality. This leads to Purple Collar work.
Developing a widely-accessible program for advancing to the Edge of Knowledge at 18 years old, in 4-6 years - would be a marvel. Since our program is based on continuous learning, the promise could be delivered with high certainly if the period is from 4-12 years of learning - giving the necessary 10000 Hours to become a genius at opening one's mind (learning how to learn).
Expectations
It's an experiment. Do you thrive at 18 years old in an experiment to reinvent the world? Do you have the passion - and discipline - to get there? Our promise is that we attain the edge of knowledge by learning how to learn, which enables rapid learning - in 4 to 12 years. The minimum is getting 1/3 of the way in 4 years. But because we are aiming to present students with an opportunity for rapid learning, we think that we can teach 3x more 3x faster - about 10x improvement - an equivalent of a lifetime of on-the-job learning. This means that in 4 years, we can measure significant improvement. We measure everything so we can improve. We expect an ongoing level of design and build and philosophy skill improvement, measured as (1) understanding of our design goals (OSE Spec for integrated civilization), by the ability to build effectively (ongoing productivity improvement that enables a base level of productivity sufficient to sustain a post-scarcity village), by the ability to design effectively (measured by the capacity for sound design that reconciles calculations with real-life performance in of the same), and the ability to engage in divergent thinking (demonstrated by proposals that produce 'original' whitepapers on the improvement of the world's infrastructures). The first year focuses on developing the capacity for divergent thinking, leading to a level of hope and faith, backed by first principles of physics - that allow one to believe firmly in limitless potential of what can be done to improve the world. This serves as the fuel for further years of study. In simple terms, the candidate must be excited about continuing their studies to deliver on the possibilities.
Tracks
There is a comprehensive set of tracks available. the Global Steward track is an intent to gain the Edge of Knowledge with near total certainty in the 4-12 year period, meaning that the balance between learning and earning is skewed towards learning. The Village Builder Track is an intent to attain Construction Management skills in 4 years, with the ability to produce new designs using the FreeCAD Seed Eco-Home Designer software. And there is everything in between. The Builder Track culminates in the beginnings of design capacity to produce original designs, as opposed to working from existing designs - as well as the capacity to design and build supporting machines - in a period of 8 years. At the 8 year phase, the avid student is capable of interning at an existing Campus in its Campus Replication program. Global Stewards integrate build, design, enterprise, and integrated human curricula from the beginning. The Village Builders start with build skills and is augmented with an opportunity to study the Integrated Human curriculum. Village builders focus on build skill, while getting exposed to the integrated human, design, and enterprise aspecs with design focus in 4 years, and enterprise focus starting at the 8 year mark. The rationale is that prior to attaining unlimited power of enterprise, one must possess the qualities of an Integrated Human. With great power comes great responsibility.