Web 3.1 DAO / Community Formation Discussion
We are building a new kind of collective, a community owned organization and professional services network, aka a "Guild".
This is a very important moment in history. Web3 / Web 3.0 is happening.
As Howard Rheingold famously says “What it is, is up to us” - or more pointedly, up to you.
If you want to do something meaningful to expand the value and widespread usage of these technologies and new forms of commerce, please join me on April 6.
While Web 3 is surging now, it could easily collapse on itself at this point given the current levels of toxicity, risk, and complexity. Where many of us see Web 3.0 as the focal point of our collective opportunity to design and manifest a more inclusive economy - others see it as a Tulipmania styled fad, based on a set of fundamental hypocrisies. That this era is about the decentralization of power, while simultaneously worshiping exclusivity and scarcity.
Thankfully, more and more people are “doing their own research”, and discovering as I did, that there is something Beyond the current headlines that merits further investigation and investment.
I have also met enough truly good people who give me hope that all is not lost. In the past 6 months, I have connected with hundreds of others who also see, believe, and invest their efforts into the same future I see, including all of the speakers at our Web 3.1 Leadership Summit and Unconference last month, and countless others I met at ETH Denver and SxSW 2022.
I’ve also been fortunate to meet many other professional service providers, boutique agencies, facilitators, and Waymakers - quite a few of which are clearly ‘old souls’ like myself. Many who share my values and have been working for decades to bend the arc of history in this direction. I’ve also met enough young professionals to know the stereotypes aren’t all true. They are almost universally aligned around the notion that WE are greater than ME, and they are eager for mentorship, wisdom, and collaboration.
The potential and promise Of Web3 is tremendous. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
Do you want to be a leader towards and within a more inclusive economy?
Are you interested in joining with other like minded people from around the world to serve others, to guide them in their journey’s to their own corner of the Web 3.0 universe? To make this a focus of your professional life?
To build something based on these principles, together.
More immediately, it is time for us to shape this conversation and focus on our purpose, and the deeper potential of Web3 beyond the story of ‘line goes up’ sensationalism, billion dollar hacks, and celebrities buying NFT’s.
It is time to manifest a society built around co-ownership with new forms of smart, technology enabled, community organizations, with new ways of co-creating value with others and new ways of sharing in the return on investment. Informed by all who have come before us.
Beyond the advocacy and educational community of events such as our Web 3.1 Leadership Summit, we are envisioning a new professional services network, a new guild, a new collective, a new community owned organization where your active contribution to the community creates greater economic opportunities for us all. Opportunities to guide others into their own new forms of organizations. To work with social entrepreneurs, community leaders, large organizations, and the technology ecosystems of Web 3 to do what it will take, to create a more inclusive economy and empower more people to live and give their gift to the world.
Or perhaps it is your path to work as a Waymaker inside larger organization, leading the innovation efforts, or tasked with the market research into Web 3 technology for your team.
Regardless, I invite you to join me, to AIM Higher, to pledge to co-create with me a new kind of services firm, a new kind of organization, a new kind of community - where Accountability, Integrity and Mutuality are at the heart of all we do. Where we serve purpose driven organizations and heart centered leaders with our talents, skills, and wisdom.
Let’s ask tougher questions and have hard conversations about what it will take to create a more inclusive economy, what it will take to build enlightened organizations, and what it will take to develop a more equitable socioeconomic system for everyone. Let’s work together to build this better tomorrow - let’s learn, share, and grow together…
Let’s build a new professional services network for Web3 that is more than a way to make a living, but is a way to co-create a new world.
The need is clear.
Among each of us, for a community of peers interested in learning how this technology makes a meaningful impact, interested in figuring out the best ways to utilize the technology to create value for our markets, our industries, and our communities. For those of remote workers, freelancers/independent contractors, and entrepreneurial minded Waymakers who believe we are the change the world needs right now.
We are the pioneers working to figure out what are the best ways to build these new community organizations, and we will use our experience together as a means of teaching others. We are those embracing beginners mind, pursuing mastery through experimentation, with a willingness to learn, grow, and share with others.
The need is clear.
In the market, for trusted advice, services and wisdom centered empowerment. For an army of professionals to sort out the complexities of these new Web 3.0 technologies and new methods of governance, co-creation, and value sharing. A new way for us to organize, to create impact, and to make a living.
In the mainstream Web3 narrative, for a community to share the other stories of Web3. The instructive stories of community impact; of leadership; of all the people working to create a better world; and of how people are using these emerging technologies to co-create value which we will co-own together.
For and with the people who are transforming the world that is, into what it was always meant to be.
Let’s lead the way. Let’s get to work.
Join me to discuss what is Beyond Web 3.1 next Wednesday April 6, 2022 at 8am PDT (GMT-7 Pacific).
Share your thoughts and questions in the comments or across social media using #Web31 hashtag.