Ruth Catlow is an artist, researcher, and recovering web utopian. Her projects include: the CultureStake  app for collective cultural decision-making and LARPs for planetary-scale interspecies justice. She was an early visionary when it comes to seeing the potential of the blockchain to democratize art, and is the author of Radical Friends - DAOs and the Arts  and Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain. Let’s dive in!

Key Takeaways:
Planetary scale interspecies justice and live action role play, or LARP
More than human equal rights 
Effects of LARPing as a dog 
Pressure to maintain status and culture over tech 
Coordination vs collaboration and democracy 
Voting, deliberations, and understanding what we care about
Complexities of nested systems 
Opting out of a system 
Catlow’s new book with Marc Garrett

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Austin is focused on developer onboarding and mentoring. He founded BuidlGuidl to empower builders to create resources and prototypes for the Ethereum ecosystem, and compensates and motivates them in the most web3 way. Ready to learn more? Let’s dive in!

Key Takeaways:
Subjective and trust-based compensation (03:04)
Trustful UBI and scaling (08:29)
How BuidlGuidl is funded (10:10)
Shill or be shilled (11:41)
UBI illustrated (14:13)
Retroactive public goods funding (24:06)
Austin, pre-crypto, pre-ETH (29:53)
The story of ABI Ninja and Flashbots (33:44)
Hottest Scaffold builds that are ready to fork (40:29)
Important shills Speed Run Ethereum and Tech Tree (45:41)

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This Week in DAOs - Feb 16, 2023
The Uniswap / a16z controversy explained
Decision-making that benefits the investor
When Flock chose Yahoo! over Google
SushiSwap’s origin story
A glimpse into the StarkWare Sessions

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Gabriel Tumlos, Founder of Mochi, is an early contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem, and played essential roles at ConsenSys, Gnosis, Ujo Music, and the Decentralized Music Society. Prior to that, he led the first blockchain research initiative at KPMG. 

Key Takeaways:
The best party at DevCon (01:12)
Tooling or a coordination game (01:50)
Sticking together for shared goals (03:47)
A vision for how DAOs should be (9:38)
Cyborg Camp (11:49)
Role playing in an alternate universe (16:40)
More on LARPing with Ruth Catlow and Black Swan (18:19)
Lucid dreams: the proper metaverse (20:20)
Visualizing Lucid Dreams with Midjourney (23:24)
Web3 loves the moon (29:12)
Inspired by The Three Body Problem (30:14)
Non-euclidean metaverse and Escherian worlds (31:20)
Creating a bidding war with villain dynamics (37:16)
Letting communities die elegantly (38:52)
Join the Dream Oscillator Cohort (41:32)

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This Week in DAOs - Feb 2, 2023
Gone phishing: an explainer on the latest scheme 
Exploiting contribution tracking and compensation
(Don’t blame Coordinape)
Vitalik and stealth addresses
Regulation and giving DAOs a path towards scaling

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In this week's episode of DAO or Never, we interview Ooli de Villèle, Cryptowitch, and David Mier y Teran, genesis members of FamilyDAO.

The mission of FamilyDAO is to fund initiatives that support families. The word “family” is used with the broadest possible interpretation, inclusive of all possible configurations. Funding for FamilyDAO is generated by the Family Nouns project, a Nouns fork that generates and auctions one Family Noun everyday. Ready to learn more? Let’s dive in!

Key Takeaways:
FamilyDAO’s origin story (01:28)
Welcoming families to IRL web3 events (04:48)
Defining family structures and networks (07:40)
Proposed: update the definition of family (9:44)
Funding FamilyDAO by forking Nouns (13:26)
DWeb Camp offers a preview (21:42)
Parents and kids are not to be underestimated (28:40)
Ranking web3 events by family-friendliness (33:01)

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In our first This Week in DAOs of 2023 we discuss the upcoming events and emerging trends we’re most excited about. The DAO space is shifting from building DAOs to launch tokens, to building DAOs and asking what impact they can have on the world, and we couldn't be more hopeful.

Key Takeaways:
DAOs are born in Denver (1:03)
Hydra: A DAO of DAOs (2:17)
DAOs for organizing labor (6:21)
DAOs for DeSci (7:25)
Nouns.build for easy forks (11:35)
KlimaDAO clarity (15:09)

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In this week's episode of DAO or Never, we are joined by Songyi and Anna, both of whom are founders, contributors, and advisors to multiple Impact DAOs.  Both speak candidly about the advantages of the DAO structure and its current limitations. Anyone interested in understanding how DAOs can shape the world should tune in.

Key Takeaways:
Defining Impact DAO (01:20)
Advantages of the Impact DAO structure (02:48)
Human components of a successful Impact DAO (10:54)
Human engagement and community evolution (15:28)
Resolution: voting ≠ governance (19:54)
Deliberation Spaces > Referendum Infrastructure (23:57)
DAO space blind spots (28:40)
Mycopunk and natural cycles of life and death (32:48)
A DAO’s Purpose (35:10)
Impact DAOs of our dreams (40:35)

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WTF is an Impact DAO? by Gaye Soykok
The Definitive Guide to Impact DAOs by Impact DAO Media

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