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Frontiers Of Coordination #11 - 3 Years Of DAOing w/ Dekan Brown From DAOhaus & RaidGuild

Jan 16, 2023

43:16

In this episode Peth has a talk with one of his favorite people in the space to chat about the challenges and the future of DAOs and governance.

Dekan Brown is a developer and a Daoist. He’s one of the founders of DAOHaus, Raid Guild and Metacartel. His work has been focused in governance and community type experiments. This time he shares the lessons and perspectives he’s gained over the last three years working in the crypto space.

"We are basically trying to reinvent the system and get people to think about things differently," he states. In his opinion there’s the idea of digital organizations but the idea of decentralization, resiliency, robustness and anti-capture has been forgotten.

Reflecting on past experiences he shares that avoiding what he calls “operational overhead”, minimizing governance and having a high-level purpose are some of the areas for improvement in DAOs.

“What we should be going for is millions of different kinds of sovereign nations where every person is a citizen of maybe hundreds of thousands of other nations and, as an individual, you have the sovereignty to move wherever you want, to use your money however you want and to form in this groups and understand where the publics goods for this groups are and how are you funding them”.

Some of the topics:

· DAO narrative pushed in the wrong direction

· DAO Citizenship

· Digital corporations vs DAOs

· Token holders vs community

· Treasury less DAOs

· DAO governance

· Burocratic ingroups and “operational overhead”

· Setting a purpose and guiding principles

· Minimizing governance

· Seasonal leadership changes

· Periods of reflection and goal setting