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V2 DAO Collective Sensemaking

Governance / Substack

Reflections from a collective sensemaking call with governance practitioners on making DAO experiments easier to compare, learn from, and build upon.

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Supports

  • Governance Design
  • Facilitation & Decision Frameworks
  • Institutional Learning

What If Artificial Intelligence Is Collective Intelligence?

Collective Intelligence / Substack

An exploration of AI as an expression of accumulated human knowledge, and the governance questions this raises about representation, ownership, and shared benefits.

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Supports

  • Governance Design
  • Institutional Learning

The Minimum Viable Institution

Current practice / Institutional Learning / Substack

A representative piece of the current practice: how organizations can create just enough shared structure to coordinate, learn, and adapt without becoming rigid.

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Supports

  • Institutional Learning
  • Coordination Systems
  • Governance Design

The Power of Decentralization; and the Decentralization of Power

Governance / Substack

A reflection on decentralization as a political and organizational question: how power, legitimacy, and learning are distributed.

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Supports

  • Governance Design
  • Facilitation & Decision Frameworks

Mutualism in the Web3 Era

Mutualism / Substack

An exploration of mutualist economics, shared infrastructure, and cooperative learning in Web3 contexts.

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Supports

  • Coordination Systems
  • Institutional Learning

Toward a Value-Based Compensation System for DAOs

DAOs / Substack

A proposal-oriented article about contribution, compensation, value, accountability, and feedback in DAO systems.

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Supports

  • Governance Design
  • DAO Operations Support
  • Ecosystem Strategy

For Development Without Destruction

Institutional Learning / Substack

A piece on development, care, and the need for adaptive progress that does not destroy the systems it depends on.

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Supports

  • Institutional Learning
  • Coordination Systems

Carework: The heart of good governance

Governance as Care Work / Substack repost, July 2026 / DisCO.coop Stories, May 2023

Care work is at the heart of good governance for any collective. The article explores how caring processes often require time and attention that may not directly serve individual output, but are essential for the health and coordination of the organization as a whole.

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Supports

  • Institutional Learning