Alex Wittenberg

In self-managing organizations, leadership is distributed across roles, not individuals.Rather than there being one leader in a community, there are many. Hierarchy is dynamic based on the specific function being carried out, the scope of the decision, or the context of the work.

Exit to Community was a very natural fit. It's giving us a north star to orient ourselves around strategically, and helping us figure out what capacities we need to build, internally and with our community, to be set up for a successful post-E2C future. It has really helped us get aligned as a team. Exit to Community is values-aligned,... See more

Aspirational: actively working to progressively fulfill the first 6 criteria. 

What are my DAO's specific needs? And which incentive mechanisms address them? 

The great irony of all our efforts to avoid facing finitude—to carry on believing that it might be possible not to have to choose between mutually exclusive options—is that when people finally do choose, in a relatively irreversible way, they’re usually much happier as a result. We’ll do almost anything to avoid burning our bridges, to keep alive... See more

His biggest worry, though, is that we still mostly fail to acknowledge that we live in a roaring attention economy. In other words, we tend to ignore his favorite maxim, from the writer Howard Rheingold: “Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.” 

In a walk through the woods, I’m engaged in certain kind of mostly pre-conscious interpretative work—reading the landscape, we might say. Walking through a museum, on the other hand, involves interpretative work of a different and more conscious nature. To the degree that our experience is mediated by digital devices, it takes on the quality of a... See more

This is why boredom can feel so surprisingly, aggressively unpleasant: we tend to think of it merely as a matter of not being particularly interested in whatever it is we’re doing, but in fact it’s an intense reaction to the deeply uncomfortable experience of confronting your limited control. Boredom can strike in widely differing contexts—when... See more

There are a few elements of Prime that are very important and I believe transferable to web3 consumer applications: