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🧵 Summary Thread: Just wrapped another incredible "Let's Talk About /DAOs" call! 🔥

Here's what we discussed that every DAO builder needs to hear 👇

https://x.com/i/spaces/1eaKbWQeMNBGX

📋 The Missing Piece: Org Guidelines

@stellaachenbach dropped this gem: DAOs need "organizational guidelines" just like brand guidelines - but for operations. Concise docs with graphics that clear up misunderstandings without walls of text.

Why don't more DAOs have this? 🤔

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🏓 The Ping-Pong Problem

@tomatoxyz shared a brutal reality check: watched his DAO take 4 MONTHS to decide on hiring a translator, and a YEAR for a Twitter manager.

Discord = decision-making quicksand. Everything becomes an endless back-and-forth with no resolution.

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⚖️ Legal Reality Check

@thethriller with the truth bomb: "You don't get to choose whether to be a legal entity. The law decides for you."

No documentation? You're still a general partnership by default. Better to define it yourself than let courts decide later.

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😤 DAO Burnout is Real

Heartbreaking stories of contributor churn, accountability failures, and people leaving Web3 entirely.

Key insight: We're trying to speedrun 5 years of organizational problems into months without proper foundations.

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🎯 Vision Alignment Crisis

Even when people "love the protocol," they often have completely different visions of what it should be.

Most DAOs skip the basics: clear mission statements and theory of change. How can you coordinate without knowing WHY you exist?

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🏛️ The Federation Future

@1a35e1's vision: Think beyond individual DAOs. How can decentralized orgs cooperate at scale? Need that North Star goal for prioritization.

Web3's superpower isn't just decentralization - it's coordination at scale.

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💡 Old World Wisdom

@kyngkai909's insight: DAOs aren't definitions of legal entities - they're operational methodologies. We keep reinventing wheels instead of learning from decades of organizational design.

Corporate world has solutions. We just need to adapt them.

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🐝 The Beehive Dream

@stellaachenbach's vision: DAOs that work like beehives (but for humans). Gradual decentralization: centralized → less centralized → less centralized.

You can't force autonomy overnight. It's a process.

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🚪 Vote With Your Feet

@uhthred's advice for burnout: Move faster when something isn't working. Don't stay in dysfunctional environments.

"I'd rather be poor in this space than rich in a bullshit arena like investment banking."

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🔧 Use the Tools!

@Wasabi's call to action: Stop creating new problems! Use proven Web3 primitives like rage quit, merit-based governance, reputation systems.

Problem: We optimize for liquidity instead of empowering operators.

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 🎭 The Unlock Example

Shoutout to @Unlock-Protocol for showing gradual decentralization in action and creating actual organizational guidelines.

Plus they gave us all attendance NFTs! 🎫

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📞 Join Us Next Week!

These conversations are pure gold for anyone building in the DAO space. Real talk about real problems with real solutions.

Weekly call, same time. Bring your experiences, questions, and hot takes.

Who's in? 👥

Next week's space:

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It's that time of week again!

Let's talk about DAOs!

Tomorrow at 10am PST we're gathering on the xbird app to talk about all things DAOs!

https://x.com/i/spaces/1OyJALOZYvOGb

teddit

honest personal take (disclaimer: i'm not an ML expert, i just study and use a lot of social apps):

i think its highly unimaginative and tired to tell new users on a social platform to "reply a lot" in order to get any engagement.

social platforms, for a long time, pinned discovery as a user problem. tiktok changed that. they didn't expect users to earn attention the hard way (hustling to self-promote and get follows).

instead tiktok took on discovery as a platform problem and decoupled distribution from follower count entirely: a content-first, graph-agnostic approach.

on tiktok, a user's responsibility is to make good content and the algo would do the rest based micro interactions and watch behavior. YouTube took a similar approach, but favored creators who mastered their (effort intensive) rules: SEO knowledge, thumbnails, content cadence, etc.

if we're hearing that discovery is a problem, the question should be: whose problem — the user's or the platform's?

take long-form text platform substack: the recommender engine places more of the burden on the platform than the user, and the platform bias is towards quality via a trust graph.

it recommends newsletters based on what you read, introduces editorial curation, and the "recommended by other writers" feature means that small / new writers can get regularly recommended to audiences that a specific writer's taste.

each platform makes a design choice about who should work to be seen. on substack, they believe that good writers should be lifted through network effects and curation.

does this scale easily? no, it scales slowly but is compounding.

so why is this so hard for short-form text-based platforms like twitter, threads, bluesky, or farcaster?

because short-form text is typically low-signal, high-noise. short posts on their own carry very little context or signal. it's easier to produce, but harder to evaluate. as a result, discovery for short-form text platform has relied heavily on follower graphs. 

twitter initially solved this with hashtags (then failed to do it at scale with lists, fleets, and circle). substack partially solved this with its writer graph (trust graph) and categories (topic / semantic clustering).

and i think farcaster's open data, mini apps, and interoperability (zkTLS) can be leveraged for creative solutions here that aren't possible on other platforms. that excites me.

Tucker Carlson destroying John Bolton and the Neo-Cons for trying to get us into a War with Iran. 

#FireBolton https://t.co/Dl1RWGtgoM

The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸

Hmmm... https://x.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1142229351833845762

Interesting. From 2019 but relevant right now

Interesting. From 2019 but relevant right now https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/06/22/the-fact-that-americans-need-to-be-deceived-into-war-proves-their-underlying-goodness/

I can’t tell why Iran feels threatened by us 🤔￼

🔥 Weekly “Let’s Talk About /DAOs” recap! This week, we dove deep into Vitalik’s call to “burn down the legitimacy of existing paradigms” and rethink DAOs from scratch. Is it time to start over, or just evolve? 🧵👇

Everyone's favorite weekly DAO call strikes again! 

Join us in 30 min for the most fun you might have all week 🤩

https://x.com/i/spaces/1kvJpyOMZVbxE

Join us now! Last week we talked about:
💳 Stripe–Privy Acquisition
⚖️ Decentralization vs. Centralization
💸 VC Investment Models
🌐 Web3 Adoption Paradigms
🔄 Revolutionary vs. Evolutionary Approaches
🤖 AI & Blockchain Comparison

Just dropped a vibe coding session + reflection on the future of development:

🔧 The build: Fireflies to Obsidian sync in < 2hrs  
🧠 The implications: When AI builds your apps while you vibe

Video of session: https://youtu.be/cb-2MxZ9tWE
Article: https://open.substack.com/pub/thethriller/p/when-ai-builds-your-apps-while-you 

#VibeCoding

Anyone not know and want to see what hard core vibe coding looks like?! https://x.com/0xThriller/status/1934135306170896733

I say hard core because I'm using two agents at once, and a workflow AI-Dev-Tools by Ryan Carson to get Cursor and Claude Code both to be much more agentic than they are out of the box.

If you have not seen what vibe coding looks like...

🎥 Here is one hour of vibe coding v1 of an app into an actual working app for some data processing, while also vibe coding a video. It's all for my DAO @BlackFlagDAO, and partly for fun.

I sped this up 4x so you're watching https://t.co/ib13BSfAyk

Adam Miller (TheThriller) 🏴

We should probably rename Siri to Artificial Stupidity instead of Artificial Intelligence.

I can’t get Siri to fucking spell my dog’s name (Goldie!!!) correctly. How am I supposed to get it to understand my business or do anything else all the other AIs are doing? SMH

This week's DAO call is coming up soon! 

Didn't miss it! 

https://x.com/i/spaces/1rmGPyQNQPZJN

I'm starting to feel like, if I don't have at least 2-3 AI agents working for me at once, I'm not being productive.

ARMES.ai (1 month old product in beta) is helping me achieve this, by the way. It's not "agentic", but it's agents.

New AI brand strategy for weekly /daos call!

This episode was a killer deep-dive into legal structures for DAOs and all the complications and pitfalls that can bring.

If you've been thinking about legal structures and how they relate to DAOs, this is the episode to listen to!

https://t.co/rF3ylizlJ6

@Trigs_0 Brand strategy for /DAOs call:

## **The Brand Mythos: "Let's Talk About /DAOs!"**

You're not running a show - you're **stewarding the campfire** where the decentralized future is being forged in real-time. This isn't just another crypto talk; it's the **weekly communion of

New AI brand strategy for weekly /daos call!

https://x.com/0xThriller/status/1930327086243426320

Community Builder. I'm wandering and wondering. Interested in decentralized, cool & creative stuff. Worked on a DAO for 5 years and looking for something new.

@tomatoxyz what DAO were you involved in?

፨ Legal Entities for Web3 & DAOs 🎙️Host of Just DAO It! Podcast & /daos Channel 💼 Founder of MIDAO 🟪 Purple 🏴 bDAO nf.td/thethriller