DAOistry is a little research project into what really works and doesn't in DAOs, and blockchain-related communities in general.
While it attempts to be practical (and somewhat critical) it also considers the long-term visions of what is possible. From this perspective, it seeks to reveal the new paradigms blockchains enable, and draw a line to those from what works today.
At a meta level, it's inspired by Arthur Clarke's Profiles Of The Future - essays which explored the ultimate perimeters of what various scientific domains could discover.
For me, here and now, it's a by-product of my own research, which aims to find fun and useful experiments to deploy to help people coordinate better with blockchains. (I'll be launching most of those from 🍵 Cuppa)
So letting the big visionary brains set the direction, but keeping it real about what to focus on next.
With that in mind, I'd love to collaborate.
You can see a lot is still pretty "drafty." So even little edits and fixes are welcome!
And it's be great if you have bigger ideas too.
Here are some topics I plan to cover:
- Emergent structures
- Schelling points
- Nash equilibria in committee decision-making
- Implicit and natural collusion
- Silos and departments
- Meme power
- Vibes
- More meeting formats like retrospectives, kick-offs
- Ways of preserving and developing organisational knowledge
- Information radiators
- Clearly defining different consensus mechanisms
- Cooperation games
- Crypto as a massive set of parallel experiments "here we test in production ser"
- Composability (for work coordination primitives)
- Compensation mechanisms
If you're looking into these or anything else that might be good here, let's talk!
Please email me here.
Sal