# Ep 6 | Looking back, looking forward

By [Tao of DAO](https://paragraph.com/@tao-of-dao) · 2021-10-13

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![Cheating here. Tea Time text on Oct 12. Vlog w/ Flex recorded last Friday. But this was too apropos.](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/185ca897a339762cd154ba20b2aaae403a182cc6ab51e06811ef44703c6cb4cf.png)

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](https://krausehouse.club/) [Discord](https://discord.gg/egMhTZZn) 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](https://twitter.com/flexxchapman), co-founder of Krause House.

I was so happy that Flex joined me last Friday on the vlog. He was super gracious with his time and our nearly one-hour jam session meandered through:

▹ The importance of working a ritual of “pause and reflect” into one’s life. (Flex brought up a surprising analogy found in the world of software development!)

▹ The best DAO onboarding experience I’ve had to date.

▹ Flex’s re-discovery of the power of cohort-based activities.

▹ Flex’s journey through the Seed Club accelerator (and how there may be no such thing as a blueprint or subject matter expert in crypto).

▹ Why a broader conception of onboarding may be needed, embracing the entire DAO community and helping folks onramp to web3, DeFi, etc. (Krause House University, here we come!)

▹ FWB pets, plants & home decor channels…folks have a million other places on the Web to talk about these things, but they **choose** to do so in the FWB Discord. What’s the secret sauce?

▹ _Understand the user persona,_ says Flex. There’s a wide array of people coming through a Discord with unique goals and interests. But…_We can’t solve for everyone, either._

▹ What does Flex think are the top psychological motivations that drive not just membership but deep commitment to a DAO? (h/t [Scott Mandel](https://scottmandel.medium.com/dedication-is-the-holy-grail-for-daos-13c7b8b98f22).)

▹ How do you protect the vitality and creative energy of an org while setting up forms/ structures to support its growth?

▹ The most powerful paradox: passionately believing everything is broken while simultaneously, deeply surrendering and trusting in the process. _Ask,_ Flex says, _what could go right?_

▹ Take those 1:1 calls with your fellows in the DAO! Voice > text. _Game-changing_, says Flex.

▹ What’s the most powerful question you can ask on a 1:1?

[![]({{DOMAIN}}/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9xK6v-elkk)

signing off, with gratitude to Flex,

C

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*Originally published on [Tao of DAO](https://paragraph.com/@tao-of-dao/ep-6-looking-back-looking-forward)*