Alex Wittenberg

Ways to contribute should be made clear to all membersExpectations for contribution should be clearly communicatedThere should be low-stakes ways to contributeMany of these DAOs find that there are a lot of people interested in stepping up and contributing, but they are not sure how and where―it’s a problem of both education and fit. Ways to... See more

But more importantly, web3 can let us transcend the limited language of existing platforms by creating more advanced living, breathing identities on-chain. Our data doesn’t need to be limited to our music selections or our conversations with strangers on dating apps. It can include our contributions to building communities in DAOs, to writing... See more

But in Rosa’s view, this “creeping reorganization” has, in the 21st century, “become newly radicalized, not least as a result of the technological possibilities unleashed by digitization and by the demands for optimization and growth produced by financial market capitalism and unbridled competition.” 

We might be predisposed to think of attention as a laborious effort of the will. But I don’t think this is quite right. Our attention can, for example, be solicited by what is beautiful or compelling in such a way that we will find it a pleasure to give and sorrow to withdraw. As Simone Weil has put it, “Attention is bound up with desire. Not with... See more

New norms meant more work. Automatic washers and dryers raised our expectations for clean clothes and encouraged people to go out and buy new shirts and pants; housewives therefore had more loads of laundry to wash, dry, and fold. As one 1920s housewife wrote, of her new dusting and mopping and furniture-polish technology, “because we housewives of... See more

Put simply, good working groups reduce coordination costs within DAOs; they catalyze effective action with less bureaucracy.

Community tokens serve as financialized coordination tools in previously unfinancialized communities.So how do tokenized communities economically sustain themselves? This is primarily a question of how individual members and contributors get paid, so that they aren’t forced to allocate time elsewhere. Unlike protocols, people need to be paid. 

Challenges or limitations: Does not make sense for small discrete tasks.