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Decision hygiene - a guide
There is substantial literature on the inherent challenges of delegated management structures. Common examples include workers' representatives reporting to a central organizing committee, professional management reporting to a board of directors, and technical working groups reporting to a technical operating committee. DAOs of course offer us additional technologies and approaches including the use of distributed, trustless, and transparent mechanisms to identify consensus.
The Funding Cooperative DAO: unleashing the collective power of founders
There has been a lot of talk about the power dynamic shifting towards founders during the heights of the recent macroeconomic cycle. Funding is up, company formation is up, and most importantly the number of engaged developers is up, and valuations were up. Data from a16z’s recent Crypto Report suggest the shift to web3 has been accelerating.
Wen bootstrap DAO? - trying out DAO tooling & NFT community gates
In late 2021 I joined wagmas, a discord discussing forming a new DAO intended as a hype-free space for web 3 adoption - in support of the web3summit. I gravitated to researching the underlying technology and architectures and set out to collaboratively build in public an understanding of what software and services could relatively easily help us to form a DAO.
Wen bootstrap DAO? - trying out DAO tooling & NFT community gates
In late 2021 I joined wagmas, a discord discussing forming a new DAO intended as a hype-free space for web 3 adoption - in support of the web3summit. I gravitated to researching the underlying technology and architectures and set out to collaboratively build in public an understanding of what software and services could relatively easily help us to form a DAO.
Centralize to decentralize: web3 conference
I’m looking forward to the web 3 summit in May in San Diego. I’m helping to pull together a panel that will seek to compare community building in OpenSource communities with building communities in the world of web 3.
And the cool techies yell: "hey crypto, get off my lawn!"
The primary driver for me to learn more about crypto and the blockchain is my interest in building organizations that help sustain open approaches to innovation - such as open-source software.