# Determining Priorities

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**Published on:** 2023-03-19
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Last week I talked a lot about being basic. This week, the majority of my time getting back to basics and determining priorities. This created one of the roughest, most emotional, and un-productive weeks imaginable. Determining Priorities While my priority had been improving onboarding, my newly found need for education around security seemed to top that. I also had to weigh my commitment to the Grants Committee, which I take seriously, along with the Governance and forwarding of my community. Once off the pity pot for my callus choice to interact with a smart contract and make myself vulnerable, I looked to improve our onboarding through Governance and the Grants Committee. But became blocked at the same spot that I have been for the last five months, blocked by those I consider my peers. Let’s take a deeper look into the History there. This is my second term as one of the two BanklessDAO Grants committee leads. I am the only woman that has ever been on the Grants Committee. in a total of six periods, composed of seven people, and I have been the only woman. That's 1/42. This never occurred to me, until I stopped to question why most things that I said would be overlooked and ignored. I guess I could be considered ignorant of other cultures concerning how men and women are viewed. Which unfortunately still includes inequality in some parts of the world. Full disclosure, this is not a card that I play. I would not consider myself to be a feminist, but I have to wonder if this is the reason that I consistently get ignored and although I have brought this to their attention, it remains the same. Being heard is a priority to me. I should be able to stand up for what I believe in and have my voice heard to make an impact in the future. I decided the best approach for me was to tie these all together. Education on safety is also a priority. Looking at what I had done wrong and what education needs to be around it, I found two distinct areas where education is desperately needed. Smart contract education, how to read and verify details of transactions, and who you are transacting with. I mentioned in my previous blog how I noticed what was missing from my wallet. This was an NFT that I purchased on OpenSea. I double-checked, and I had purchased this from a Verified Seller. I attempted to reach out to OpenSea on Twitter, to maintain transparency. However, my post either does not publish or is immediately deleted. Security is a priority to me. Educating on how to verify and what information is used to verify our wallet interactions is a priority for me. I do not like to feel unsafe, so I would not want to bring others into a space where they feel unsafe. This is one of my moral principles. I do not ask others to do something I will not do myself, I do not treat others in a way that I would not want to be treated. To my dismay, this circles me back to improving the Governance in my community, to create the framework for a transparently verifiable safe space. My priority is creating a transparently verifiable safe space and educating on that safe space through Governance. My foreseeable obstacle is being heard and respected in the Gentleman’s Club of web3.

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