San Diego Institute of Technology

Founding Phase · San Diego, California

Three ways to take part.

SDIT exists to reunite knowledge across disciplines in pursuit of truth, human flourishing, and the long-term success of civilization. You can take part at three depths — and the first is open to everyone, today.

Explore everything as a Visitor. Study in person as a Student. Help build the Institute as a Fellow — or stand alongside the work as a Patron.

Ways to Take PartChoose your depth
Open to all Visitor Anyone curious. Learn, browse, and explore everything SDIT makes — the Curriculum, the Daily, the Papers. Free and open, no application. Start exploring → In person · By application Student The small in-person circle who come to SDIT itself to study — in the workshop, the seminar, and the water. Coveted, and earned. Apply as a Student → Scholar · By application Fellow A scholar of the Institute — a small group who help design, build, and grow it into the future. Apply as a Fellow →

Alongside the Fellows stand the Patrons — friends and benefactors who help build the Institute and keep it free.

SDIT is early, and building the team in the open — see who we're looking for.

VisitorOpen to all

Learn from the work. Free, and open.

Everything SDIT publishes is free — anyone curious can read the Curriculum, the Papers, and the Daily without applying, paying, or signing up. To be a Visitor is to learn from the Institute as it builds in the open.

The people who are present for the founding — who read the papers as they come out, who follow the work before it becomes well-known — are part of the record. The Daily brings the work to you every morning: a song, an image, an idea worth sitting with.

The Daily

A short daily email — one piece of music, one image, one idea. A habit of attention, delivered to your inbox. Free, unsponsored, no ads.

The Papers

Long-form essays on ideas worth exploring at length. Published openly, free to read, free to share. A record of what the Institute is thinking.

Curriculum

The open curriculum — courses, frameworks, and tools developed at SDIT — available to anyone, forever, at learn.sandiegotech.org.

StudentThe in-person circle

Come to study, in person.

Students are the small in-person circle — people who come to SDIT itself to study: in the workshop, the seminar room, and the water. It is not a degree, and not yet a credential. It is a real education in good company, during the founding.

Places are few, and held to a high bar — not of résumé, but of seriousness. A Student is expected to show up, do the work, and raise the level of everyone around them. Cost is never the deciding factor; if support is needed, say so plainly.

FellowScholar of the Institute

Help design and build the Institute.

Fellows are the scholars of the Institute — a small group who help design, build, and grow it: its curriculum, its projects, its foundation for the future. It is not a degree or a credential; it is an invitation to serious work, in the company of people figuring out what it means to think and build well in the age of AI.

Fellows are not students passing through a finished curriculum. They are founders of one. What a Fellow builds becomes part of how the institution is built. There is no tuition — Fellowships stay open regardless of financial circumstance. The only requirement is genuine commitment to the work.

PatronAlongside the Fellows

Help build it. Keep it free.

Patrons are the friends and benefactors of the Institute — those who help build it without being scholars themselves. The great institutions of the past were made possible by patrons; this one will be too.

It is an involved role, not a transaction. Patrons get behind the work however they can:

Give

A gift of any size keeps the Curriculum free, the research independent, and the founding moving. SDIT is a 501(c)(3); gifts are tax-deductible in the United States.

Build

The curriculum is open source. Improve it, translate it, adapt it, or contribute tools — the source lives on GitHub.

Open doors

Expertise, introductions, materials, a place to gather — if you have something to offer the mission, write to us.

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