Last week we talked about closed loop governance and building for accessibility.
Join us this week and bring your own topic!
Special guest @jango.eth will share with us about @revnet and how it works to tokenize revenue streams.
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What am I doing here?
Question I ask myself every day.
I am driven by values, ethics, and a desire for more mutualism in the world. I believe that Blockchain is the technical unlock we need to pursue these goals in the modern world.
But every day I feel pulled in a million directions. Every morning I speculate on how best to spend my day.
Usually I just end up doing things for the ppl and projects I trust, hoping it'll help bring us all success.
Sometimes I do things for me. This work is extremely draining and I have to feed myself too. It's hard for me to prioritize self over others tho.
Some days I end up not really doing anything, or lots of little random nothings. That, too, is nourishment to the mind and body.
Some days I wonder tho... is any of this going anywhere? Or are we just larping online in these infinite games of dopamine feedback?
Has Blockchain actually made real meaningful change in your life beyond the hype, busywork, and speculation? Not just did your bags pump, obviously money impacts everyone's lives. But beyond the hyperfinancialization, I would love to hear about real world change that you've seen in your local space because of Blockchain.
Let's Talk About DAOs is LIVE TODAY - join us!
Last week we explored deep questions:
Why do projects with best intentions keep degrading into the same toxic playbook? Every early choice sets your foundation. Once on the incumbent system's rails, you end up in the same place: meme token or meme token with extra steps.
@kyngkai909 reframed DAOs: "What if we looked at DAOs as conflict resolution systems?" Focus on dispute resolution first, coordination follows. When there's no conflict, you hardly need DAO tech. Make conflict resolution priority #1, not #25.
We explored conflict avoidance vs. resolution. Instead of recognizing tension that needs balance, we pick a side. That doesn't resolve conflict - it excludes everyone who disagrees.
@thethriller on tensegrity: tension that maintains system integrity. Build flexible systems that adapt.
This week: More questions, deeper thinking.
Join: https://x.com/i/spaces/1YpJkknzNvyJj?s=20
Paradigm shift from @kyngkai909 on last week's call:
"We look at DAOs as governance solutions. But what if we just looked at DAOs as conflict resolution systems?"
Early DAO tooling showed this - DAOs as dispute resolution mechanisms. That's what they really are: handling disputes between various groups of people.
"Focus on them as conflict and dispute resolution systems - they allow for simpler and freer coordination."
@thethriller added a @durgadas.eth reference: "DAOs often design for conflict resolution as the 25th priority when it's the core thing you're designing for. When there's no conflict, you hardly need the DAO technology system."
This changes everything. Design for conflict resolution first, and governance flows from that. It's about handling tension between conflicting priorities in democratic systems.
Recording: https://x.com/i/spaces/1jMJgRYQXnYGL?s=20
Next call: https://x.com/i/spaces/1YpJkknzNvyJj?s=20
Last week we tackled a frustrating reality: despite best intentions from founders, things keep degrading into the same toxic playbook.
@bpetes.eth shared years of ruminating on this insight: every choice you make early on sets the foundation you build downstream. Once on the incumbent system's rails, they keep nudging you down the track. You end up in the same place: meme token or meme token with extra steps.
Why? Traditional VCs like the playbook as-is. They've established standards with them as intermediary between founders and building ideas. Finding partners who won't force you down the same pathway while building something new - that's the challenge.
We explored building in the open rather than in a vacuum. Cataloging choices that lead somewhere different. Walking this journey together instead of each founder hitting the same walls alone.
Recording: https://x.com/i/spaces/1jMJgRYQXnYGL?s=20
Next call: https://x.com/i/spaces/1YpJkknzNvyJj?s=20
"You're making it so beautiful here!"
- words I did not expect to hear the lady yell from her car window as she tries to squeeze past me in my giant diesel truck and trailer full of rotting fence boards, half blocking the street as I try to get out of her way.
But it truly warmed my heart that she felt that way!
I haven't been spending as much time on the Internet lately, because I've been busy trying to get things done in the world in front of me. This fence has been literally falling down for years and I had started to notice people crossed to the other side of the street because it looked unsafe to walk by it! 😲
I finally forced myself to make the time to get it fixed, and I've been constantly rewarded with the positivity from others who appreciate that I'm actively improving the neighborhood!
In a world of constant distractions, being present in the world and sharing gifts of kindness and consideration with others creates more value than being on a device.
https://farcaster.xyz/trigs.eth/0x1ae6a034
One of my favorite aesthetics is natural cedar in a temperate mountain climate.
I've talked to many different people about privacy fencing over the years, and there's been as many opinions as ideas on what the perfect fence is. Metal chainlink lasts longest and is the most secure, but privacy is minimal, even with privacy screening added.
Cedar plank board is most commonly what people desire. The cedar looks good, lasts a long time, and provides both visual and auditory privacy, to a degree. But then you have the dilemma of posts, and finish. 4x4 pressure treated and no stain is hands down the most common, if nothing else because it's the cheapest. Often ppl will even use fir or pine instead of cedar, even tho it doesn't last as long.
Well, that's what my old fence was.... Let's take a deep dive together and explore what makes a good fence!
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Speculators are a useful part of a free market.
But when all you have is speculation, then all you're building is a casino.
Speculation in real world markets is a secondary layer of arbitrage on top of the actual market. Without that fundamental layer of utility at the base level of the market, there would be no value to speculate on.
Web2 created a false illusion that being a "creator" as in lower-case "c", aka influencer, is actually creating value because it is subsidized by ad revenue, and therefore seems profitable. That's why every attempt to monetize attention in web3 keeps failing: it doesn't have the monetary weight of real world products pushing ads behind it. The closest Farcaster has gotten is literally just straight up paying people out of pocket. Unsustainably. Subscription fees alone will never sustain! That's not how an economy works!
Everyone in web3 keeps speculating on who's gonna become the next Mr Beast, except this time we all hold the coins and will get rich with them.
But Mr Beast level money only exists if you're sponsored by ads. Now that he's kick-started, yes he truly is creating value in the world and able to generate revenue. But it's a fraction of what his ad & sponsor income is!
Mr Beast would have starved in web3 living off their "creator coin" because there's no ad revenue to provide the cashflow that makes the whole endeavor profitable.
We're building the wrong solutions. Sure, creator coins or whatever will be useful once we actually kickstart an economy. But if we want actual money to flow through Blockchains, we have to build things that actually help people create real value. And no I'm not saying we need to cater to ads. That's an outcome, not a solution.
"More interesting content" isn't a solution either; it's another outcome. The solution is building better tools that people need to manage their daily lives in today's digital world. Building solutions that allow people to engage online with the least amount of impact possible on their time. Technology should be minimizing for attention, not maximizing.
But that's what you get when you have an incentive system where ads pay ppl to keep your attention focused on your screen.
Things designed to steal your attention and keep you distracted (casinos) are exactly the opposite of value producing. The more time people spend trying to trade tokens the less time they spend actually doing things that create value. In general, the more time we have to spend on devices the less time we have to create things of value.
Blockchain's value is that it can automate all the trading and time it takes to manage all of that part of the economy. But we keep selling that as the front end feature!
If everyone's attention is on flashy spin wheels trying to get prizes, or trading tokens, then they are not out there living their lives in ways that inspire them and others to create beauty and utility and things other people value. Nobody actually wants to care about tokens or coins. They are a unit of account, and accounting is boring as HELL!
Winning a prize wheel never helps anyone, really. It just distracts an individual for long enough for them to lose their grip on something tangible they could have been spending their time doing that could have mattered.
We're back after our X-rug last week!
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I'm bringing up an idea to share in the call about changing up the format a little and introducing a video-call element and cross-streaming to increase our accessibility and reach!
"We often find it so important to come up with the right answer because of how we're taught in schools that it lends itself to these fixed ideas. 'Aha, I've got the right answer!' But there are always these third alternatives that we often miss because we're in a hurry to arrive at the one right answer" - @durgadas.eth
His example from building: "As someone who spent 10 years building a cob building, the main point is how it actually responds to movement and how to acknowledge those movements"
Cob doesn't need a sealed envelope because the clay itself does moisture exchange naturally. The properties of the material do the work.
"Analogously for a DAO, I would love to build a house out of clay so I don't need a plastic vapor barrier because I've got this permeable thing where the properties of the actual thing itself do the work for me"
Stop rushing to binary solutions. Join us today to explore the third alternatives.
https://x.com/i/spaces/1rmGPvbmrDyxN
Tomorrow 10am PT: Let's Talk About DAOs!
**Homework:** Identify blind spots we've seen in DAOs, projects, or in ourselves as individuals, that contributed to things not working out
Come prepared to share: • Structural blind spots in DAO design • Personal blind spots that affected participation • Collective blind spots that led to failures • What you learned from examining these
This week we covered: content repurposing workflows, signaling as free speech, why "DAOs are dead" is wrong, philosophy as foundation, process before protocol, and learning through failure.
As @durgadas.eth said: "Everybody's got some kind of blind spot. This is the DAO experience"
As @trigs.eth said: "Failure is good because the more opportunities to learn the better"
Time to examine what we missed.
Join the conversation: https://x.com/i/spaces/1rmGPvbmrDyxN
Last week's episode: https://x.com/i/spaces/1BdGYZNmDgzJX
"We have to learn process first before we can turn that process into code. What's powerful about blockchain is it's an open sandbox where we can build anything, but we have to know what to build"
The process: "We have to integrate culture into what we're doing with technology. As we figure out these processes, then we can turn those processes into protocols. That's when we start having tools where we can just click a button and get results"
But first: Learn the human part. Figure out the cultural workflows. Build analog-style person-to-person.
Then: Encode it into protocols that scale.
Culture → Process → Protocol → Tool
Listen to the full discussion: https://x.com/i/spaces/1BdGYZNmDgzJX
Join next week: https://x.com/i/spaces/1rmGPvbmrDyxN
