Mo Shafieeha

Your organization may not be ready for design, good or bad. Design-aware employees can organize brown-bag lunches and evangelize at the water cooler. Your organization will remain design-resistant unless its leaders think in a goal-directed way about its users (and customers). Consider reading some of the fundamental design books if you're a leader... See more

Do centralized platforms always win due to speed? It appears that history will repeat itself (web2x2) in two potential ways: extensive protocol innovation is a fool's errand, and Slack will always outpace Ethereum's IRC, as with web2. Could some decentralized projects look more like an empowered engineering team than a standards body meeting... See more

Asset curation The most natural place for asset curation is NFT collection DAOs, such as PleasrDAO. DeFi DAOs can also face this problem. DeFi DAOs use their governance tokens as art and culture curators to vote on adding or removing assets. Anyone can create a trading pool in Uniswap, but those with leverage cannot. Governance determines which... See more

How to Use Systems Thinking One: Understand the Big PictureUsing mapping as a tool to understand the complexity of a problem or project, we level-set the playing field by making it visual and giving all stakeholders the opportunity to understand it. There are different ways to map, and it is important to define the relationships between elements... See more

A DAOlitician’s main role would be convincing other token holders to join their cause and delegate tokens to their union. DAOliticians are similar to politicians but also different in important ways. First, a DAOlitician’s voting power differs from another DAOlitician’s, but all politicians share the same voting power. Second, politicians are... See more

Professor K. Anders Ericsson explains in his 2016 deliberate practice book that human expertise results from the development of effective mental representations of whatever field you wish to specialize in. Although this view of expertise as tacit knowledge is relatively well-known, it seems uncontroversial. The art of practice, however, may simply... See more