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The "Frequent Flyer" approach to decentralized governance
March 13th, 2022
One of the powerful governance innovations that DAOs systematized was breaking the dichotomous “you’re either in or you’re out” approach to community membership into a more robust and granular engagement spectrum:
Measuring community health through community tokens
January 24th, 2022
One of the key innovations that blockchain technology enables is the ability to easily create ventures that are fully owned (and operated) by their communities, through a community token. In most cases, ownership of the community token doesn’t just provide access to the economic upside of the venture but is also the primary mechanism to influence the most critical decisions: on-chain governance decisions assign a community member a certain number of votes that’s proportional to the number of community tokens that they hold.
DAO health: 9 starter metrics
January 5th, 2022
As collaborative work becomes more digital, its digital footprint becomes a meaningful source of insights into the health of the collaboration and ways to improve it over time.
DAOs as E3Os
December 22nd, 2021
In recent years, a unique organizational pattern started to emerge on the progressive end of the corporate sector, reflected in companies like Haier, Zappos, and Buurtzorg. The companies applying this pattern operate in different industries (electronics, retail, healthcare) and originated in different geographies and cultures (China, US, Netherlands). Simone Cicero at Boundaryless, alongside peers from other organizations, gave it the mouthful of a name “Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organizations” or E3O for short.
The demise of the firm and the rise of the DAO
December 13th, 2021
Humans have collaborated since the dawn of civilization. The modern firm, on the other hand, is a relatively new phenomenon, only a handful of decades old.
From individual READMEs and “user manuals” to group working agreements
December 10th, 2021
I’ve been meaning to write about individual READMEs and “user manuals” for quite some time and I’m glad that I held off.