Mo Shafieeha

Some ideas are true and correct when applied to higher levels of abstraction. However, ideas that might use to lower classes do not translate cleanly to high levels. Though human psychology rests on the complex interplay between neurons, neural network rules do not apply. On the other hand, the regulations that govern a market economy do not extend... See more

Popular belief holds that making the right decision is the most challenging part. I have found that making a decision you don't want to make is the most challenging part of the process. You can terminate your subordinate, quit your job, lay off a quarter of your employees, and break up with your partner if things don't seem to go well.

Collective asset management DAOs are seeded with some initial capital in the form of governance tokens and assets used to buy governance tokens. The initial treasury of a DAO consists of 500 governance tokens and 100 ETH if it mints 1,000 governance tokens and sells 500 for 100 ETH to genesis members. When a DAO grows in terms of users or cash... See more

------------------------------------------------------------- Introducing the players - Fei Protocol: $FEI is one of the few truly decentralized stablecoins because it is mostly backed by $ETH. Fei Protocol’s Protocol Controlled Value (PCV) holds ~$653mn, providing a 206% collateralization ratio for all circulating $FEI.

No doubt the taste system is involved in feeding us nutrients to sustain our lives - we're attracted to the nutrients we need and we're deterred from the ones we don't. Even if your brain doesn't get stimulated by water, certain parts of your brain get the entire behavioral stimulus.

If you have a decrease in grip strength of 10% or more, skip the gym that day; grip strength plays a big role in performance and recovery. Your body needs to be in the least abrasive sleeping position. You can sleep in uncomfortable positions, but your body gets stressed when you're awake. Sleeping positions influence how you move while awake. You... See more

Metagovernance is possible because of on-chain composability between protocols. One protocol could acquire voting power in another protocol and have direct influence through on-chain voting. Although these account for most value transfers in the metagovernance space, a few more nascent and less explored areas of metagovernance are strategic... See more

When shaping an organization in practice, your work decomposes into manipulating three levers: structure, incentives, and culture. Organization designers know they must consider the interplay between all three elements. For example, companies organized into business units tend to have different cultures at the unit level, but strong company... See more

---------SIGNAL VS NOISE Social governance in DeFi applications is usually coordinated through online forums and Discord channels. Snapshot applications conduct "off-chain" voting before protocol changes are encoded on the blockchain. DeFi governance evolved organically but created a lot of noise because proposals, discussions, and votes spread... See more