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I was born for greatness. Ordinary was never an option. Extraordinary is.
This is my journey to infinity.
Nissim: We are facing a housing crisis today, and the public needs to learn from history how to initiate projects while also learning from the mistakes that have resulted. The public needs to learn about the success factors of new communities, neighborhoods, and residential buildings, as well as the failures of projects and the causes of these failures. As you can see, there are more failure factors caused by geographical area, culture, employment, education, nature, leisure, and accessibility to travel or public transportation than problems with the construction itself. Of course, we can see failures with construction methods and materials. However, these are easier to handle than changing people's behavior or their reactions to unemployment or the inability to access a workplace using public transportation.
Liat: I want to teach that class. If I could gather all the people in the world who are unemployed, living in places unfit for human habitation, or crammed into overcrowded housing, and motivated to change their reality, I would teach them online the essential elements of what makes a livable home, a connected neighborhood, and a thriving town.
I'd teach them how to build based on their geographic location, local planning and construction laws in their area, the available materials they can use, and the kinds of innovations that could help them move forward more efficiently.
We need to teach practical employment skills online through the lens of construction, urban renewal projects, and the creation of living environments.
Nissim: Don't you think people are already doing that?
Liat: No. All that exists online are piles upon piles of videos where mentors teach unemployed people how to become mentors themselves, but that’s not a job, employment, or a way to contribute to the environment you live in, and it's needed.
What no one has done at scale is exactly this! A global, accessible, practical curriculum that helps people build for their local conditions, using tools to adapt and innovate. Guide them online, monitor their progress, and assist them in solving everyday problems remotely, regardless of their living conditions. Help them work with the cards they have, using only online guidance.
Nissim: But how would you teach them? In some areas, people are so poor they barely have enough food to survive. Additionally, many individuals lack formal education, so they must learn everything from scratch. To build, they need to understand concepts such as engineering, spatial design, and calculating the strength of a structure, for example.
You’d need a preschool to prepare them for the school of construction. And that is a massive headache. No one will come; people hate school. Now, even the US government is considering closing schools.
The only way to succeed is not to tell them it's a school.
Liat: Like fight club.
Nissim: Fight Club? Do you want them to get into fights?
Liat: No. Like in the movie, where they’re not allowed to talk about Fight Club, and that’s exactly why it became so powerful. So let’s build this school the same way. We won’t call it a school. We won’t talk about it as if it were education. The three rules of our version of Fight Club.
You don’t call it school.
You don’t call it school.
If someone taps out, pauses, or disappears, we wait. No shame. No questions. No one gets left behind.
This isn’t school. This is how we build the future.
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To read the stories Mark and Samantha talk about in this podcast, click the links:
How the Industrial Revolution Transformed Housing and Shaped Modern Cities.
From Transit Camps to Triumph: The Refugees Who Built a New Future
Israel's Bold Gamble: Welcoming a Million Immigrants Amidst Uncertainty
Plans on Paper, Pain in Real Life: The Cost of Rushed Nation-Building
Building the Future: Lessons from Israel's Early Housing Challenges
Constructing Identity: The Legacy of Early Israeli Housing Projects
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