Alex Wittenberg

The more I’ve done it, the more I realize that what most people think of as the hard parts of hiring—asking just the right question that catches the candidate off guard, defining the role correctly, assessing the person’s skills—are less important than a more basic task: how do you see someone, including yourself, clearly?

Paid communities are a still-nascent category, but the business model is familiar: free content with a subscription paywall for more (the standard model of content + social). Paid communities develop this formula further: they take the subject matter of a content producer or brand lifestyle, and pair it with a paywalled digital social space for... See more

Digital store fronts and apps can be ad inventory. There’s no a priori reason why you can only show ads next to ‘content’ - an ad in a physical store is not the same as an ad in magazine, but apps are apps.

A Treasury Committee is to be created consisting of 5 community-elected individuals from within Aave and Llama. The committee will help shape how the treasury is managed, as well as ensuring there is open and transparent communication and alignment across the broader Aave ecosystem. The standard ARC and AIP process will be followed for all treasury... See more

Supply is obviously just one piece of the puzzle though. So in future pieces of this series we’ll also dig deeper on demand, game theory, ROI, and other aspects to good tokenomics worth knowing before investing or launching a project of your own. 

During Season One, Forefront experienced fundamental issues arising from an imbalance of these two forces. This manifested as:Onboarding as fast as we can vs. as much as we need to, creating substantial overhead and degrading the experience of existing contributors. This prompted us to pause onboarding before the end of S1.

Societal pressures used to make it relatively easy to take time off: you couldn’t go shopping when the shops weren’t open, even if you wanted to, or work when the office was locked. Besides, you’d be much less likely to skip church, or Sunday lunch with the extended family, if you knew your absence would raise eyebrows. Now, though, the pressures... See more

Structure is especially important in instances when members don’t follow community guidelines or aren’t aligned with the DAO’s mission and operations. Core contributors rely on guardrails to “offboard” members in these instances, and they’ve shared that it’s easier to do when guardrails are created and implemented early on. Without them,... See more