If you got the time to micro-manage people, you can most likely hire cheaper, less talented people for your work.I think it roots in a misunderstanding of what the role of a manager is:

Right now on AAVE, I can get 1.91% interest on my USDC if I supply it for other people to borrow. This is what we might consider the true yield on USDC right now, since it's based on what other people are willing to pay to borrow it.

Task checklists: Each new member must complete a small list of tasks (eg. introducing themselves, joining a community call, completing a bounty, and/or messaging a core contributor)

Just as the rise of influencers and fall of corporate legitimacy left individuals to become the primary distribution for brands and eventually to form their own (Tyler, Rihanna, even George Clooney), a few individual devs can take the place of entire corporations in building decentralized financial rails. 

To see what’s radically different between web1 and web3, consider the example of Brave Browser: advertisers pay the browser’s users to watch ads through Brave’s native token, with users making more than twice as much revenue as Brave itself. Users take the place of the traditional ad platform, even as they’re directly incentivized to share Brave it... See more

Technology, then, is but an expression and by-product of the underlying reliance on technique, on the proceduralization whereby everything is organized and managed to function most efficiently, and directed toward the most expedient end of the highest productivity. Ellul’s own comprehensive definition is found in the preface of The Technological So... 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.

Stepping back to look at the broader history, it’s clear that the Second Brain movement is part of the long arc of technology’s progress in helping us transcend our biological limitations. It’s an essential tool in the remote, autonomous, project-based economy we are increasingly moving toward, as important to knowledge workers as a hammer is to a ... See more

We long for the day when Rabbithole or others have perfected the on-chain CV, but until that time, different levels of participation or contribution zones might act as proxies for reputation.