dane cads

This is not about making a new script or vocabulary. It is about contextual and transcontextual shifts. Ecologies move in inter-relational ways — Bateson said this 80 years ago, and his father, William Bateson, said it in 1888. Indigenous cultures have been saying this for thousands of years.

In traditional organizations like SaaS tech companies, most onboarding focuses on a unidirectional conversations. The company prepares new employees to execute a pre-defined role or trains new customers to use a product effectively. Although there are exceptions, the organization mostly directs the agent.

Humanity is at a crossroads, will we be hoarders or healers? There is every reason to argue that history proves either. System Change is needed to find our way to another way of living that is not fed by exploitation of each other and the ecology. The change needed is not in any of the institutions, for surely they are interdependent, the change is... See more

In DAOs, this dynamic is a 2-way street: a new member learns to navigate the community, and the community learns how to integrate the member into the mission. Multiple time-zones, constantly changing priorities, and a highly volatile ecosystem complicate this further.

Developmental hierarchies I think are where our movements currently struggle the most. I’ve been searching for a long time for a way to talk about this that does justice to the nuance and complexity that exists here, and haven’t really found it…