Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on July 26, 2022. Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy Imagine web3 is your high school. DeFi is where the calculus superstars, the statistics gurus armed with graphing calculators, and the extroverted sports players ended up. NFTs are where the art kids, the theater stars, and the band and orchestra members went. DAOs are where all the history and literature nerds went. (I'm one of them.) And it makes things.......interesting. From ...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on July 26, 2022. Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy Imagine web3 is your high school. DeFi is where the calculus superstars, the statistics gurus armed with graphing calculators, and the extroverted sports players ended up. NFTs are where the art kids, the theater stars, and the band and orchestra members went. DAOs are where all the history and literature nerds went. (I'm one of them.) And it makes things.......interesting. From ...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on April 4, 2022. Writer: Samantha Marin I was a talent scout for BanklessDAO for a few months this fall. For about 10 hours each week, I met new members interested in writing and editing and built an onboarding process for my group. Here's what I observed: Retention rate of people lasting more than a couple weeks was probably around 5%. On top of low retention rates, I saw a lot of fear and uncertainty in new members. People couldn't find the...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on April 4, 2022. Writer: Samantha Marin I was a talent scout for BanklessDAO for a few months this fall. For about 10 hours each week, I met new members interested in writing and editing and built an onboarding process for my group. Here's what I observed: Retention rate of people lasting more than a couple weeks was probably around 5%. On top of low retention rates, I saw a lot of fear and uncertainty in new members. People couldn't find the...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on June 22, 2022. Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy While researching an article on DAO mission-setting, one section of MolochDAO's whitepaper postscript caught my attention.“We offer an alternative vision of automation, encompassing general AI/AGI to more local DeFi mechanics. Smart contracts > automated global financial system > an artificial general intelligence that turns the world into a paper clip machine = a very real exist...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on June 22, 2022. Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy While researching an article on DAO mission-setting, one section of MolochDAO's whitepaper postscript caught my attention.“We offer an alternative vision of automation, encompassing general AI/AGI to more local DeFi mechanics. Smart contracts > automated global financial system > an artificial general intelligence that turns the world into a paper clip machine = a very real exist...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on April 27, 2022 Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy Improving your skill set is like growing a garden. You need to till the soil, plant the seeds, water the seeds, weed the area around them, and wait awhile. After many months, you'll start to see your efforts bearing fruit. Most skills required for success in a DAO take a long time to grow. But if you start now, you'll be more prepared for DAO work by the time DAOs gain wide ...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on April 27, 2022 Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy Improving your skill set is like growing a garden. You need to till the soil, plant the seeds, water the seeds, weed the area around them, and wait awhile. After many months, you'll start to see your efforts bearing fruit. Most skills required for success in a DAO take a long time to grow. But if you start now, you'll be more prepared for DAO work by the time DAOs gain wide ...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on July 7, 2022 Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy At the beginning of May, I started on the communications team at Aragon with the goal of telling the story of Aragon, both from a product and an ecosystem perspective. The term Aragon probably brings up a variety of different ideas of what that organization is, so I'll provide some answers from the "inside." Aragon is a software company that creates and maintains Ethereum smart con...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on July 7, 2022 Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy At the beginning of May, I started on the communications team at Aragon with the goal of telling the story of Aragon, both from a product and an ecosystem perspective. The term Aragon probably brings up a variety of different ideas of what that organization is, so I'll provide some answers from the "inside." Aragon is a software company that creates and maintains Ethereum smart con...

Originally published on April 15, 2022 on quorummedia.xyz Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy NFTs have exploded in the mainstream. With a total addressable market of $1 trillion, NFTs are more than just a niche art collectors' club—they're nearing household-name status. Celebrities from Jimmy Fallon to Madonna own Bored Apes, and play-to-earn gaming are already taking NFTs to an even wider audience. DAOs are far behind NFTs in terms of adoption. DAOs have 548,000 ac...

Originally published on April 15, 2022 on quorummedia.xyz Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy NFTs have exploded in the mainstream. With a total addressable market of $1 trillion, NFTs are more than just a niche art collectors' club—they're nearing household-name status. Celebrities from Jimmy Fallon to Madonna own Bored Apes, and play-to-earn gaming are already taking NFTs to an even wider audience. DAOs are far behind NFTs in terms of adoption. DAOs have 548,000 ac...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on May 26, 2022. Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy In 1930, John Maynard Keynes gave a speech titled "Economic Possibilities of Our Grandchildren," in which he argued that the most pressing problem could be too much leisure time. He believed that, by the time two more generations had rolled around, our technological advancements would create a 15-hour work week. But the data tells a different story. Working hours in the United States, ...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on May 26, 2022. Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy In 1930, John Maynard Keynes gave a speech titled "Economic Possibilities of Our Grandchildren," in which he argued that the most pressing problem could be too much leisure time. He believed that, by the time two more generations had rolled around, our technological advancements would create a 15-hour work week. But the data tells a different story. Working hours in the United States, ...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on June 10, 2022. Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy Facebook is famous for setting their company motto to "Move fast and break things." The idea behind this is that if you run enough experiments quickly, and find the things that don't work faster, you'll get to the solution before your competitors do. Unfortunately, that method doesn't work when it comes to DAO governance models. When you move too quickly and change too ...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on June 10, 2022. Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy Facebook is famous for setting their company motto to "Move fast and break things." The idea behind this is that if you run enough experiments quickly, and find the things that don't work faster, you'll get to the solution before your competitors do. Unfortunately, that method doesn't work when it comes to DAO governance models. When you move too quickly and change too ...

Originally published March 17, 2022 on quorummedia.xyz Writer: Samantha Marin The D in DAOs has been stumping everyone for a long time. I've been in countless meetings where DAO contributors are throwing around their ideas of what decentralization is in a human-to-human context. You'd be amazed at how differently everyone defines this word that seems to be the underpinning of everything we do. Finding the meaning of decentralization in a DAO context—a non-computer, day-to-day, human...

Originally published March 17, 2022 on quorummedia.xyz Writer: Samantha Marin The D in DAOs has been stumping everyone for a long time. I've been in countless meetings where DAO contributors are throwing around their ideas of what decentralization is in a human-to-human context. You'd be amazed at how differently everyone defines this word that seems to be the underpinning of everything we do. Finding the meaning of decentralization in a DAO context—a non-computer, day-to-day, human...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on May 12, 2022 Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy I came across the concept of VUCA while reading General Stanley McChrystal's book Team of Teams. And I was immediately intrigued. According to McChrystal, when evaluating the conditions of the 21st century social scientists "use slightly different terminology from the optimistic 'interconnected.' They use phrases like 'discontinuity,' 'disruption,' or ...

Originally published on quorummedia.xyz on May 12, 2022 Writer: Samantha Marin Header design: Cosmic Clancy I came across the concept of VUCA while reading General Stanley McChrystal's book Team of Teams. And I was immediately intrigued. According to McChrystal, when evaluating the conditions of the 21st century social scientists "use slightly different terminology from the optimistic 'interconnected.' They use phrases like 'discontinuity,' 'disruption,' or ...