Thread by @patio11

No lie, sometimes I hear about the vibe people get from DAOs and think “This really rhymes with the first few weeks of that charity that started out of a bunch of geeks piling into Discord.”

https://twitter.com/tanayj/status/1466793560129392646

I love people getting enthusiastic about collaborating on things over the Internet, and honestly the whole Constitution thing kind of pushed my buttons in a way Number Go Up projects generally do not, but broadly unclear to me that DAOs the form benefit the communities they serve

The job to be done here is much more interesting than the job currently being done, IMHO.

What’s the right way to organize professional labor which is attached more casually to an organization than traditional employment?

How does one manage it?

How does one do a status meeting? Does one need to?

How, and this was a recurring pain point for us, have different…

… levels of engagement, meeting people where they are in ability/desire to contribute and also e.g. adjusting to reality that not everybody needs to know or should know literally everything?

“Isn’t that antithetical to an ethos of transparency?”

I really have an aesthetic appreciation for transparency, but as the charity organizer I had a much stronger desire to have people not die, and we needed to cooperate with orgs that trusted us with secrets to facilitate that

None of these are new problems in charitable organizations, community organizing, etc, by the way, and it was interesting watch non-Internet people who had spent their careers in those fields trying to solve them / adapt the usual situations on Discord.