Building digital-first communities follow an interesting path - you have to build communication scaffolding prior to allowing strategy, governance and longer-term components emerge.
In some ways this requirement was hidden from obvious need since in-person work provides you that scaffolding for granted: synchronous conversation and dialogue.
In digital spaces though, if the scaffolding of communication pipeline and rhythm isn't in place - then longer-term planning just can't happen.
As a result, I'm finding that (in parallel to community recruitment, or even prior) it's useful to work on elemental operations - and only then look to solidify a common north-star.
A secondary component to this: A strong community North Star is NOT the same as a source of inspiration (the call to action for The First Gathering)
Roadmap (post 1st gathering):
1. Elemental Ops: Comms Scaffolding
2. Strategy + Governance: North Star
3. Tokenomics + Legal: Sustainable Loops
4. Internal Projects: Experimentation First, then Scale
5. Ecosystem Projects: Mutual Support First, then Harmony

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I wish I had understood the power of poetry decades ago.

Alas, it’s something that needed to be found on its own timeline.
I totally misunderstood the power of language for so long - it’s as much a tool to communicate with others, as a way to communicate with your selves (emphasis on the plurality there).
It took distancing myself from flowerful literature for decades to come back to it and realise how useful and inspirational it is.
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Want to take a peak at what we've seen? In our new "How To" article we talk through DAO Leadership.
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* Contributors are humbly confident and believe they can navigate the unknown.

* Contributors understand their mission and advocate for the community’s vision.

* Contributors have a bias towards action and act towards emergent goals.
A successful web3 leader...

(1) Helps us create in the unknown. And to create, we need to make sense of this new complexity and chaos. No one, not even the current leaders themselves, know what best practices look like...
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Folks should pay close attention and write 1000s of articles. This show is just getting started 🍿
If you are a community manager, DAO summoner, or contributor - I encourage you to read through the history of this monumental financial flash mob, it’s power, weaknesses, and, importantly, it’s mistakes.
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Some people will say this is holacracy, others a reinvention of functional hierarchies, etc…
But each of these opinions to me is seeking to attach a known label to new cooperation mechanisms. We’ve never had bounties, Coordinape, ownership payments, transparency, and voting - ever.
And so, even is the top level structure looks similar, the mechanics, leadership, and contribution participation and commitment pathways are fully distinct.
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Digital-Native Organization Compensation Framework:

POTENTIAL METHODS:
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Digital-Native Organization Compensation Framework:

POTENTIAL REWARD DIMENTIONS:
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Digital-Native Organization Compensation Framework:

TIMING COMPONENT:
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