A post to clarify our understanding of potential overlap with Entropy.
There is a lot here, so I’ll unpack one by one.
- We believe that there is room for more than one entity to deliver strategic proposals to the DAO. We aren’t event claiming territory - this is just one proposal. As dedicated DAO contributors, we’d love to help others bring quality proposals as well.
- We believe that guiding key partners through the DAO processes is something everyone takes part in. This isn’t overlap. There is plenty of this to do.
- We are supportive of Entropy’s efforts to align the DAO with a Vision Mission and purpose. We are committed to collaborating with OpCo. Even if you thought of Entropy as “CEO of the DAO” (which we don’t and I don’t believe they do either), it takes more than just the CEO to align priorities of all the stakeholders in the ecosystem.
So do I think these overlap, NO. There is plenty of work to be done. I’d prefer if @Entropy would comment if they feel there is overlap by identifying the specific issues if there are any. We’ve done about everything we can to resolve any overlap issues including attending their office hours regularly and participating in a TG chat which has mostly been productive with 2 way feedback.
Here is the list of what we are proposing to do.
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Execute governance operations Governance operations happens at every meta-level of organization. At the full DAO level there is oversight & optimization functions and the supporting operational tasks. I haven’t seen an initiative db, governance wiki creation in their proposal. Additionally, they had plenty of time to pick up hosting the monthly GRC call. To me it seems like different work.**
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designing better systems For this to overlap without a doubt, it would require Entropy being responsible for designing and optimizing every system the DAO uses. This would be like the mayor being directly responsible for figuring out how the parks department schedules landscaping appointments.
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documenting the role and preparing for handoff to OpCo the role doesn’t exist yet. Delegates have specifically pointed us in this direction as a need. We are posturing in the most cooperative way possible to indicate that we will collaborate with a future OpCo. We also aren’t dictating that the OpCo must use our work.**
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Strategic workstream design We are working to design a single workstream. Entropy has expressed interest or activated multiple workstreams. No where have I seen designing repeatable and scalable processes for workstream governance in their mandate. However, they will by default be designing their workstream governance. Someone has to evaluate how these different budgets are governed to ensure that it doesn’t become too complex for delegates to understand. Sure, there is overlap, but I’d argue this is healthy overlap - plus we are offering to take on the operational admin part of documenting across efforts.
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building governance processes same answer as above
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executing governance operations preparing to hand off leadership to a future workstream steward. This is referring to processes internal to a workstream. Unless you’re reading thier offer to do some strategic governance work as “all strategic governance work” this doesn’t overlap based on my assumption that the governance processes their referring to are in relation to the work scopes they have identified like Vision Mission Purpose - basically DAO executive level strategy setting and OpCo.
I don’t understand, is this a reason we shouldn’t do this work?
I wrote an events proposal and handed it to Entropy in an offer to collaborate rather than have my proposal compete with theirs. I did this even though I thought I had a great plan and knew I would likely be needing a role because I was planning to leave Thrive. I did this because it was on their objectives ratified in the Fund Entropy proposal which I supported, and I did not want to overlap. They graciously offered me a spot on the council for the work and support I gave. I don’t think it is a paid role and I didn’t specifically request it. I only asked them to use my name in the proposal and/or offer a position if they felt it would help get it passed, but I had no strings attached to my support.
Yes they are. And we are not.
We’ve offered to be big supporters of this. I like most of the direction they are taking. It is a tough task. We aren’t doing anything that overlaps with this work.
Yes. And they are off to a great start in supporting these initiatives. We believe that initiatives in the DAO should have feedback from multiple parties. I commend the work Entropy is doing, but I think it is safe to say that even they would disagree that they should be the only people providing feedback and guidance to initiatives. (I didn’t check that with them - my assumption entirely!)
I don’t understand. Should everyone on the MSS be unable to work another job? Is my performance on the MSS lacking?
Conclusion
Thanks for your time. I understand how some of this can seem like overlap, but mostly because there are similar needs and roles across many functions and verticals and at many meta-levels of organization. I believe there is plenty of work to do.
We are in a tech market which is leading innovation next to AI, nano-tech, and space exploration. Not only that, we are in a competitive landscape at the edge of EXCELLENCE and INNOVATION. We need to execute and iterate quickly if we want to stay relevant.
I’d also really appreciate clarification from @Entropy if they do feel that we are indeed overlapping. That is the simple way to solve this problem if it even exists.