Tao of DAO

After years and years of holding apart from social media, I finally decided to go “all in”, December 24, 2020. Now coming up on the one-year anniversary when I spun up my Twitter account, with the handle @SpaceXponential. Though reasons remain to tread lightly, I can say, without a second’s hesitation, that everything every social media guru tweeted about has happened. Yes, for me, it happened just the way they said it would. When I finally put myself out there, everything changed. When I fin...

I spent years and years “doing my thing” - yet still questioning if I “was on the right path.” I had old-school, old-world parents. I had siblings who lived up to the parental expectations in the expected manner. This made it all the more noticeable that I hadn’t (haven’t). In my better moments I am defiant about this. (Black sheep fellowship, anyone?) In the not-so moments, I wondered if I blew it. This week felt like: Ahh, ok…I took the long way home.Gardening in PublicThe riddle we must ci...

Happy Sunday dear friends! The Forefront Genesis team is currently contemplating the riddle of our North Star. I wanted to share an exercise that I’m currently doing to help me get a better sense of Forefront’s (evolving) North Star. https://twitter.com/SpaceXponential/status/1449831959568420866?s=20 First, I consider these writing prompts:Identity: Forefront is a X....Activity: Forefront is a X ... that does Y....Activity: Forefront is a X... that helps people Y...Activity & Audience: Forefr...

A song says it best. But I’m going to put paws to keyboard because I want to talk especially about the feels, and this seems like a good challenge for a Friday evening.Suspended over an abyssLast weekend I was at one of the last remaining food truck pods in my ‘hood. While waiting for my veggie momos to finish steaming, I hopped on the phone to chat with a friend. On that call I awkwardly tried to vocalize the experience that had come over me since officially onboarding FT to Forefront. “I us...

Cheating here. Tea Time text on Oct 12. Vlog w/ Flex recorded last Friday. But this was too apropos.One of the greatest gifts of the past year or so has been the amazing people I’ve met as a result of tumbling down the crypto and web3 rabbit hole. I ventured into the Krause House Discord in June to experience a bit of the off-the-charts creative juju that I was hearing about via the crypto grapevine. Well, I found that incredible energy…but best of all, I also found Flex Chapman, co-founder o...

How do we grow a DAO without draining the vibez from it?trad org culture & designIn order to approach that question, we need to circle around Life, and be able to recognize it in things, events, relationships. Some key words associated with Life in orgs/DAOs: messy chaotic haphazard emergent smallness pop up intimate vibez I literally could not sleep last night. Visions of org architecture dancing in my mind’s eye. Thanks to my colleagues & friends today for the great convo. Signing off, C

https://twitter.com/boreta/status/1440752894727262211?s=20 In the past few days, I have been so fortunate to hear from some of you who are accompanying me on this journey. It is a wondrous thing, that you take the time to think these thoughts with me. Especially because I have no idea what I’m doing! And that is ok, as I am often reminded, because the most meaningful journeys start in the dark, and unfold in trust and conversation.Gardening in PublicIt is this conversation with you, dear frie...

Happy Sunday, friends! Another gorgeous Fall day. Right before recording the vlog, I did something super important that I’d been neglecting: put some attention on the Kernel Fellowship, which kicked off last week. Its launch thus coincided with my transitioning FT to Web3 and the Forefront DAO. The way the Fellowship came into my life was a profound gift, so the last thing I want to do is fall out of touch with this experience and this special community. (How to keep my balance, how to keep c...

questions worth living forThese days, Christopher Alexander’s masterpiece, The Nature of Order, is often on my mind. When we set out to create {anything}, we do so according to a plan. It is this plan that gives coherence to the acts we carry out. It is the through-line that weaves and orders all the discrete details into a harmonious whole. But in saying all this, the questions arise - What is coherence? What is order? What is harmony? How do we know “it” when we see it?Jackson Pollock'...

how it startedhow it's goingForefront’s Snapshot proposal to onboard FT/PT Genesis contributors passed with flying colors. So it’s official! (Actually, only official official after I changed my Twitter bio.) October 1, 2021. My first day as a full-time DAO contributor.Work <> VibesWhen I conceived of the Tao of DAO project, I knew it should be personal, docu-storytelling. I definitely want to go deep into the day-to-day of what it’s like to be in the Community Lead role. At the end of th...

https://twitter.com/Bilbo_Bondbags/status/1443708292119752772 About three months ago, I jumped into the fray at Forefront to help with the launch of Season One: Enter the Forge. I wanted one thing. I had this question, and I didn’t want to understand someone else’s answer to it. I didn’t want to read anymore. I wanted to do, bumble my way through, and keep bumbling - until that moment when the body understands, the body feels, the body knows. But I hesitate to use that phrase (“the body”) wit...