The Power of Metaphor! Using Our Lenses to Enrich Web3 Communiti…

All DAOs and Tokenized Communities are engaged in decision-making processes; governance is the catchall word for how decisions are made. Narratives — facilitated by our media — is how we shape governance, the culture of our individual organizations, and the culture of the web3 space at large.

The best communities form around ambitious missions, have a strong group culture, and have a clear way of flexing their brand identity. Think of the uniforms, memes, and other artifacts that make a group a group. Web3 enables communities to coordinate, build equity, and shape culture in ways that have never before been possible.

Let’s consider that formula: community knowledge + solidarity networks + folklore. The web3 communities I’m in have powerful ideologies; these are spaces with shared perspectives and rituals that have emerged over a compressed period of time. This manner of collective world-building in and around projects (in the best possible way, I wouldn’t use t... See more

Seeing (literal and metaphorical) speculation as an activity that necessarily builds community, and seeing the communities as necessary components of the speculative activity (rather than seeing the communities as a kind of accidental development coasting off of a separate, “real” core) helps us get at the core of the web3 dynamic — both to underst... See more