Apprenticeship 2024 Script

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Finding work you love is very difficult. Most people fail - Paul Graham - Y Combinator. How to find it? Maybe start with genius.

What? Did you know that 98% of children at 2 years of age are creative geniuses, and by the time they become adults only 2% remain? This comes from a NASA study. So we ask ourselves, is it even possible to transform education so that anyone who chooses to do so can reclaim their genius - starting at the semi-adult age of 18?

That's exactly the experiment that we are starting. At 18 years of age, you now have a choice - to take the blue pill and remain in comfortable unfreedom - or take the red pill with a choice to work on solving pressing world issues for a living.

We are creating a 4 year program in which you learn to build civilization. Starting with a house. Then machines. Then villages. Then all of technology. Then all of the technosphere, which includes organizations and institutions such as education, governance, and monetary systems. Because if you change the underlying reality, you change the social systems that ride on top of it.

Our goal is to increase the level of intelligence in this world, by recovering genius, by training that genius to enterprise savvy, for mass creation of livelihoods based on self-determination - by creating an economy beyond artificial scarcity - by open, collaborative economic development. Open source collaborative - as the new operating system of earth.

This isn't easy. We start on the factory floor. We build things. We start with housing. The unique part is that we are creating an innovative business model that is not based on scarcity - as shown that we can make good revenue like this house that we sold (show Seed Eco-Home 4 - this comes out after the sale).

In our 4 year program, the unique value proposition is rapid learning through integrated multidisciplinary learning. We combine hands on, theory, and experience - and reify with economics of product releases that enlighten the marketplace. We work on eliminating waste - such as our house at 50% the construction cost of comparable housing - by radical efficiency, digital design, and modularity.

The basic 4 year program takes you through learning functional proficiency as an integrated builder capable of doing all the work in a production house that otherwise 20 different trades would do.

How is such rapid learning possible?

Through the Rapid Learning Facility - a one week crash course in a physical facility which quickly teaches hands on - the 743 distinct actions and techniques that go into building a complete house. These tasks are all broken down into the essential task-based skill - and thus all of these can be done in about 40 hours of time - while producing submodules for an actual build. By breaking tasks down into the smallest possible chunk - we can combine learning and production - for unprecedented efficiency. house - practiced in the most. Each microtask typically has only several key points of quality and performance - so that these can be learned in bitesize chunks. This is hands-on retrieval practice, a technique of pedagogy - which by combining reasoning and hands-on work - achieves rapid results. These results are measured - such that we can match performance to compensation. That's right - in our school you have an option for work-study.

Now that is the brute practical skills part. 2 days of the week - we do actual builds as part of work-study - with the competence-based pay starting from unskilled work. We get up to productivity immediately - with jigs on the factory floor.

The interesting part is the higher level civilization construction. 2 days of the week - we spend on learning how to learn. This is the survey course on logic, thinking, mental models, knowledge architectures, soft skills, leadership - across all sectors of society - for an integrated learning perspective where moral intelligence drives both mental and emotional intelligence. Our model is to change the world. But not by creating new technology. Our innovation lies in distributing the wealth that already exists. The first step is leveling the playing field, opening up enterprise to inspire the world beyond patents and trade secrets.