-Power naturally falls into a small group of people so you have to be intentional about giving away power as there are common roles that people can fall into.
-A high value of yearn is having people take initiative and not having gated processes. An example of this is multiple private yearn telegram groups, but the problem is information was not trickling to the wider community
-Many projects start centralized and then try to decentralize over time for yearn finance they started very decentralized. Need to be aware of "shadow networks" that develop with an organization, it doesn't mean there is a conspiracy but a natural psychological tendency to form networks.
-Yearn started just doing grants or gifts for contributors after they did great work. Some studies have shown that financial incentives can inhibit creativity. Coordinape is based on the gift economy where every month there is a budget and the members receive give tokens which they can give to people and people receive compensation based on those g... See more
-People are much happier with the transparency of the give tokens. Coordinape does not solve the problem of social signaling as the most veteran visible members often receive the most recognition.
-Tracheo says at yearn finance people were really open to the unknown and wasn't concerned about creating a corporate structure. The competitive advantage is the collective wisdom of the group emerged when there was a permissionless structure.