Note: This is the 5th of 5 essays, the first 4 of which were written for the BanklessDAO Writers Cohort. This draft is a step in a process intended for gathering feedback and not intended to stand alone as a published work.

Note: This is essay 4 of 4 for the BanklessDAO Writers Cohort. This draft is a step in a process intended for gathering feedback and not intended to stand alone as a published work.

Note: This is essay 3 of 4 for the BanklessDAO Writers Cohort. This draft is a step in a process intended for gathering feedback and not intended to stand alone as a published work.

Note: This is essay 2 of 4 for the BanklessDAO Writers Cohort. This draft is a step in a process intended for gathering feedback and not intended to stand alone as a published work.

Note: This is essay 1 of 4 for the BanklessDAO Writers Cohort. This draft is a step in a process intended for gathering feedback and not intended to stand alone as a published work.

\*Note - I’m trying something new this week. I will write the best article I can in 90 minutes and will limit it to a maximum of 1,000 words. Here we go :)

My first foray into Web3 began early this year when, after several months of binging on newsletters and podcasts, I finally summoned the courage to take my first steps into the BanklessDAO (bDAO). Admittedly, after some not-so-productive past experiences of internet rabbit holes, I was reluctant to jump into an online community of any kind, much less one full of crypto-obsessed strangers. The more I considered it, however, the more encouraged I felt that the DAO presented a great opportunity to move forward on three big intentions I had set for the year.

Throughout my life I have been fortunate to have many lightbulb moments.  They typically occur after doing my best to understand something intellectually but falling short of truly “getting it” in a way that others seem to. Other times the essence of the thing makes sense but without a personal experience of it I can’t, in good conscience, call myself a believer. Up until earlier this year Web3 fell into this latter category. Technologically speaking I kinda/sorta got that blockchain is a big deal and I could see the potential of DAOs.  I didn’t really see, however, where their potential lay to change society. Not, that is, until I met Wanda. 

This week I had planned to write on the topic of doxing, or more specifically, about the question of “to dox or not to dox”, and the choice for, or against, web3 anonymity. As inspired as I initially felt to explore it, once I sat down to outline it the work began to feel like a grind. Then, as I often do these days when feeling stuck, I turned my attention to twitter for a daily download of crypto news and DAOist musings. Somewhere in my feed, from someone I had never heard of, there appeared the following,