![]() ![]() I also explored how media could be an interesting approach to checking these boxes for people like myself, though in general terms, there should be an endless amount of ways to do so. When their reputation breaks the confines of their inner circle, they must find ways of fulfilling the previous two points without sacrificing what made them want to help in the first place. Once they reach a position of comfort, they’ll naturally gravitate towards the places where they feel their own needs are fulfilled best. People want to help the missions they resonate with in meaningful ways. ![]() Here’s the part I explored in the Contributor’s Trilemma, as well as the three possible paths I identified as the builder’s journey in the digital age. But most importantly, how can we as people learn to navigate the path in a way that doesn’t lead to us perpetuating the same stale cycle of underdog-opressor we’re all too familiar with. When looking at where we’ve failed in the past (and that includes what we used to do in web2 platforms as well), I think it may be worth considering how tokens and governance and the whole song and dance might actually help us break the wheel of extractive power structures. There’s the plight of not being enough, the toil of being valuable while conserving your energies, and the calling to leverage your renown in a way that actually helps other people reach the reward of being able to share their truth without sacrificing their own reputation. We better rawdog this one with our very own monkey brains.Įvery DAO contributor faces three key moments, similar to the three paths I explored before. And most importantly, trying my hardest to find a solution that doesn’t require more tech. Looking for ways to nip our troubles with reputation and nepotism at the bud. So, what have I been doing these months? I’ve been wracking my brain at addressing three big breaking points in the journey of every DAO contributor. We must figure out how to verifiably source truths and attribute trust, cause there’s a tidal wave of misinformation, hyper-reality and post-truths coming our way. Because if we don’t, we run the risk of automation swooping over us with no real way to complement it with the much-needed human component the digital world needs to unlock all our wildest dreams. We need to define what DAOs are and how to work for them better. And I’m sorta wincing at the thought most people are barely scratching the surface of what can be done with the crypto side of things while AI comes in like Thomas the tank engine at 200mph. The real web3 is knocking at our doorstep. And the two together are the right way to eat everything from contracts to code.Īnd it’s true, these two entwined technologies will indeed bring on the next big paradigm shift. Blockchains are the right way for software to eat money. Large language models (LLMs) are the right way for software to eat language. And in ways that seem conceptually roughly right rather than not even wrong. Incompletely, imperfectly, and unreliably, to be sure, but they definitely have succumbed. Via seemingly unrelated computational pathways, these two realish domains have succumbed to computerized automation. We’re heading towards a small window of time where crypto and AI meet for the first time (in a meaningful way), and as Venkatesh Rao’s excellent essay “The Dawn of Mediocre Computing” says: I’ve been feeling more and more that the perfect storm is approaching. ![]() I feel like I've taken an interesting new step towards cracking the code on how to be an outstanding contributor without being just another laborer (what I commonly call “not being just a pair of hands”).Īfter watching these new technologies unfold, as well as being in the front-lines while looking to explore the value of my work moving past the transactional. Well, I’ve got exciting news for you on that front. It seems like these two trends are at odds. Yet there’s still people pooling into web3 everyday, asking where to sign up for a full-time salary collaborating with DAOs. The dream of making our organizations more autonomous seems almost within reach. That thesis has expanded a bit now that we’ve got tools like ChatGPT at our disposal. Last time we were here, I pondered how authority can be leveraged as a medium to amplify a message, especially when tokens come into the picture as the dots-to-be-connected in the endless puzzle that is surfacing a truth. Short answer? I’ve been posting this whole time, just not in the way you’d expect. You may be wondering why it took me almost a full semester to post another one of my highly expected thought pieces. ![]()
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