Founder
@HackHumanityCo
human-centred hackathons.
Creator of GovHack. DAO & governance geek. Contributor
@Arbitrum
. Ex IBM, Digital Gaia, HSBC, Russell McVeagh
How do we evolve decentralised governance?
@arbitrum
GovHack - ETHDenver was an experiment investing in the social layer of DAOs in a hackathon like format.
The event involved:
- deep research to map the needs of the DAO, custom design and bespoke facilitation
- curating
For the Arbitrum GovHack, a total of 23 proposals were submitted to the governance forum! 👏
In today’s Open Community Day, the 5 winning teams presented live before the community voted for prizes.
We’d like to thank
@HackHumanityCo
who organized this for the
#ArbitrumDAO
💙
This isn’t a valid test, to inject the disembodied electronic sound of a human voice into an environment unexpectedly, the animals are responding to something unnatural and unexpected.
Dogs can detect scent up to 11 miles away.
Many animals cue into infrasound to feel the
How a variety of animals react to a human voice
When confronted with recordings of human voices, 19 species fled instantly, the sound of humans triggered stronger flight responses than lions
Professor Liana Zanette was the study’s lead author
Crucial thinking on AI and knowledge systems from
@peternixey
:
I'm in the top 2% of users on StackOverflow. Things I've written there have been viewed by over 1.7M people. And it's unlikely I'll ever write anything there again.
Which is potentially a much bigger problem than
This isn’t a valid test, to inject the disembodied electronic sound of a human voice into an environment unexpectedly, the animals are responding to something unnatural and unexpected.
Dogs can detect scent up to 11 miles away.
Many animals cue into infrasound to feel the
Moving home today.
Co-living in Devon with an awesome crew on the land, 8 acres, and an old Mill, here for the next stint.
Touching grass +
IRL community +
building DAOs.
♾️
🌳🏡🧙♂️👨💻
Change the tools, change the rules.
“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
I am excited to announce I am going to
@EthereumDenver
and will be co-hosting and facilitating:
@arbitrum
GovHack
This is not your typical hackathon, no coding required.
GovHack is co-designed with the DAO.
Contributors work on the DAO for the DAO.
Apply here:
Hack Humanity Network is excited to announce our first hackathon of the year
@arbitrum
GovHack - ETHDenver
This is not your typical hackathon, no coding required
GovHack is co-designed with the DAO.
Contributors work on the DAO for the DAO
Apply here:
I have a friend who’s just bought a 120 hectare dairy farm and wants to transition to all things regenerative.
What are the refi, regen patterns, products and services, who are the people available to support this process?
#refi
#regen
#solarpunk
I’m on way to
@eth_barcelona
.
Just discovered the solarpunk, regen themes, made the call to get on the boat (from the Greek Island where I live).
Who’s going?
Would love to meet all the regens, UBI folks and anyone building at the intersection of nature, tech, consciousness.
Regens Unite London - August 25 & 26
I've participated in a lot of events, workshops, hackathons, conferences.
Last year I went to an event in Berlin: Regens Unite that really left a lasting impression, the primary outcome was not information, it was relationship.
Discovering
New profile pic
@scrtpunks
repping
@SecretNetwork
.
Calling it now, the rise of government, corporate and technocratic overreach will catalyze innovation in
#prifi
#darkfi
infrastructure.
This will be a critical narrative in the coming years.
$scrt to the🌗
Facilitators, teachers, participants I’d love your help.
I’m looking for a list of games & exercises from 5 minutes to 2 hours I can take people through to embody & learn principles of regeneration, biomimicry, permaculture, intra & interspecies cooperation.
What’s out there?
OK regens am about to fill up the basket for Gitcoin grantees and make some donations, shill me your project links.
Especially interested in projects with on the ground impact.
I’ve approached deer, cows, goats, sheep, bulls slowly, up wind letting my scent be detected, bringing myself into their line of sight, begin humming or singing in a calm manner and have been able to walk right up next to and touch them no issue.
Allowing myself to become known
What’s an acceptable ratio of time spent getting funds to do the work
vs time executing the funded work?
In DAOs it seems about 50/50.
Incredibly unproductive and massive extractor of enthusiasm.
Builders want to build.
Contributors want to contribute.
Talent wants to execute
Namaste to everyone else out there taking a deep breath as the next previously stable, trustable thing collapses, erodes and calls us to let go, to shed the unessential and adapt to how do we human now…
I see you, I feel you.
Say hi 👋
Arbitrum curious?
I'm crafting an Arbitrum FAQ and kickstart guide rn and would love your help.
The last 8-weeks I've deep dived in this ecosystem and there is an absolute mountain of good stuff going on yet it's not that visible.
I'm assembling a list of links, tips and
Arbitrum.
I'm here for wholesome values.
Having each other's back.
Setting each other up to win.
Building for real Value.
Getting in the trenches and getting it done.
Come to GovHack in Brussels.
Meet core contributors & delegates.
This is no-code hackathon, all are welcome,
I can’t regenerate in the world if I can’t regenerate myself.
Taking some time today to slow down and allow myself to be filled up.
How are you regenerating yourself today?
Play the long game.
Feeling honoured to become part of the
@smolverse
community with a custom Smol Klaus pfp.
Looking forward to meeting everyone, diving into the community.
What’s cool I should know about?
Doing some research, who's done / is doing the most interesting web 3 events?
Think innovative hackathon formats, DAO offsite, DAO Camps, hacker houses, incubators, contributor co-living months, retreats, online cohorts + an IRL finisher.
In my view, the winning formula is not
@the_wilderless
Power held in check by a straight jacket,
a sine wave of potent unpredictable possibilities modulated and constrained to a predictable response range by an artificial lobotomy guardrails.
DALL-E 3 prompt: “A hackathon set in a forest with teams of humans, animals, plants and IoT sensor tech visible and working in collaboration”.
Who’s in?
Most DAOs' decision-making, while involving a decentralised set of participants, is centralised around a monolithic treasury and a singular governance process.
I.e. the same treasury, governance process and (mostly the same) set of governors is engaged to deliberate and decide
'Tree hollows are animal homes
#1
' - an educational poster featuring 19 animal species that use hollows in Eucalypt Open Forests in SE Australia, examples of their preferred hollows & a then-&-now veg map. Get yours at or contact me for wholesale orders
The Agile DAO.
What’s your DAO’s velocity?
In agile software development, teams focus on team velocity: at what rate can a team discover and validate a need, build, and ship software?
This forms part of the SDLC (software development life cycle).
How could this work in DAOs...
My body needs to be in the right state so the correct words come out.
This insight came today as I felt resistance sitting down to produce the words to rewrite my website.
Body, speech and mind are 3 facets of one instrument arising from a common base.
The Trikaya.
Went for
Solar Punk / Regen art
Shill me your best work.
Looking for inspiration, collaborators to set the aesthetic to communicate the opportunity & for the interior & exterior design for a Regen / Solar Punk hackathon I will be running
in nature,
for nature,
with nature,
as nature
@owocki
Bioregional regeneration is an emergent field.
Parts are present, not holistically integrated, many experimenting.
@Kolektivo
@cognitivepolicy
Mapathon process I facilitated with Joe &
@SevNightingale
)
The function of a mapathon
I'm in the 3rd week of the Earth Regenerators cohort that Joe Brewer is facilitating.
It's having a profound affect on my view, being & agency
I invite everyone working in climate, regeneration, refi to devote 90 minutes to watch the week one presentation.
What comes up for you?
Composability over competition.
🧩
Share the load and the bounty.
🤝🥖
How might we build our distinct parts to play with and elevate the whole?
⚛️
❌ venture capital
✅ ecosystem funds
🕸️ mutual-staked network coops
The joy is in winning-with together by owning and
Anyone built a carbon calculator for events, conferences to calculate and easily sum up participants, the organising teams travel, and related carbon costs and then offset on chain?
I’d like to lead the way with this for the hackathons I run.
Build it into pricing.
Let me know
Hello from Samothraki, Greece.
It’s good to be back home after 6 months living and working on the road in Spain, Germany and Portugal.
Time for some deep work, a monastic month from this base.
Systems of abundance as a peace building mechanism.
I was told these words at an unconference last year and they have stuck with me.
There is enough for all when we design and engineer for this.
Nature is generous.
Let’s share the load and the bounty fellow humans.
When I was younger I used to look up to older people and think they knew what’s what, that there were senior leader’s out there that had things handled.
As I grew older I began to realise no one was in charge, everyone was winging it, no one was really steering this ship.
We
I can feel the bear market ending, hibernating people and places starting to thaw out.
Early signs of frothy fiery bursts of activity.
Keeping a cool head, emotional regulation and virtuous conduct will be key in the coming cycle.
Remember the deeper promise of this
Building the cart, 54 good projects so far including all the
@RefiDAO
Founders Circle GR15 projects
I put in $56 and this will be matched with $3508!
This is magic, everyone needs to do this.
Keep the suggestions coming, I'm not ready to checkout yet...
It’s invigorating how much +ve energy there is in the Olas ecosystem. I’ve built autonomous agents in crypto for 5+ years now, and the FUDders of each growth phase are a faint shadow in the rear view mirror. Surround yourself with ambitious & kind people and ignore the noise 💓
This is west coast swing.
I've danced it the last 15 years.
People don't believe this is improv, but it is, the 2 dancers know the song and have danced with each other before.
In this particular dance the lead and follow is dynamic, there's a unique potency of listening and
As a scientist I've had an "elevator speech" prepared for a few years now.
This year I made an "elevator video" & let me tell you: people enjoy seeing my research way more than just hearing about it!
So what do
#beavers
have to do with
#wildfire
? Watch (with sound) & find out!
Who knows a lot about grants, sponsorship, investor funding?
I’ve a big vision & I’d like to work with someone who can help me package this in a way that the resources flow to make it happen.
Happy to pay for your expertise to teach me how to fish or join & go fishing together
Oooof am feeling that resistance when I think about my big dream.
A big learning for me has been sometimes I don't need more knowledge or skills, I need to summon courage.
I read the phrase somewhere:
"Courage is a function of community".
I'm here for cultivating a cohort of
Offline from now for the next 10 days in a meditation retreat in the Brazilian Jungle.
Time for a cosmic tune up.
See you fellow humans on the other side.
Animals listen to other animals to augment their own sense making. Why don't we?
What might we be missing out on?
In Jon Young’s book “What the Robin Knows” he shares that birds narrate what they see, an on the ground fox can listening up to bird song and tune in to get advanced
RnDAO is focused on growing and developing collaboration tech and patterns of swarm work.
I've been increasingly contributing with the team at
@RnDAO__
lately and loving what I see.
The mission fits my personal thesis:
- Compossibility over competition
- Small powerful
@owocki
@grantsstack
I highly recommend
@RnDAO__
, they're doing public goods research and applying it to building collaboration technology startups in web3.
This is their first Gitcoin round to boost their bootstrapping 🙂
This is the conversation I’m having with myself at the moment.
What Steven Pressfield in his book Turn Pro calls your shadow career chosen based on fear/scarcity vs one’s authentic calling and what it takes to step into creating one’s life’s work.
Shout out to the others out
the “safe path” is brutally risky:
by never betting on yourself, never being willing to lean in to your power, your ideas, your imagination, your unique power as a human being to CREATE what is inside you—you remain stuck inside a system that will keep you there by convincing
We need a Universal Contribution Protocol.
A trustable mechanism that encourages and rewards non-artificial intelligence to contribute into a Collective Intelligence model we all ongoingly steward and are sustained by.
Anything else is harvesting and exploiting other's hard
Crucial thinking on AI and knowledge systems from
@peternixey
:
I'm in the top 2% of users on StackOverflow. Things I've written there have been viewed by over 1.7M people. And it's unlikely I'll ever write anything there again.
Which is potentially a much bigger problem than
Regenerative relationships.
From what can I get,
to what can I give,
to what can be build and grow together?
How might we create positive sum internalities, externalities, mutualities at every level and form now as praxis, every moment along this journey.
🤝🍃❤️🪄
Humans are nature.
We are keystone actors integral to ecological health.
Let’s re-member that literacy & practice and restore the lost ecological functions of people:
We've made it to Sicily, staying with
@antonio_paglino
Our priority this month will be designing the foundation of an Agroforestry Stewardship credit for this bioregion
Also planting 1,000 Moringa trees and implementing the first stages of an Agroforestry pilot 🙌🌱💚
What happens when you dilate open to see and feel the enormity of what’s true and happening in reality.
To allow waves of destabilisation in to face the truth,
to reflect on how to respond that feels rightful and meaningful with that knowledge?
For me personally it is finding
Berlin residency programmes - coliving + coworking environments
What’s available next month?
Seeking cultural fit & interest in hosting me as I incubate regenerative solutions w/ interspecies teamwork to address eco challenges
#regen
#refi
#NI
#naturalintelligence
Tired of the same old same old incubators, accelerators, grants programs spraying and praying throwing money at a wall with no well thought through theory of change?
Tune into
@RnDAO__
+
@DAO_Arbitrum
demo day with research, fellowships, experiments in venture building on
Join our live Demo Day!
The ArbitrumDAO Co.Lab Research Fellowship is approaching its end after 3 insightful months.
6 Fellows will share the results of their deep problem research around collaboration technology!
📆 April 4 @ 5pm UTC
Registration 👉
"It's not the daily increase but the daily decrease.
Hack away at the unessential." - thanks Bruce.
Discerning what's essential and what's not is a critical skill to cultivate in this day and age.
Don't beat yourself up for not being able to keep up in a world of hypernormal
'Nearly three quarters of U.S. farmers say this year's drought is hurting their harvest -- with significant crop and income loss'
37% are plowing through and killing existing crops that won't reach maturity because of dry conditions
#ClimateCrisis
#food
How you might be shaping the future of AI in ways you don't consent
What is the Open, A.I. that we need?
The releases of GPT 3, GPT4, GPT Plugins ... is being rolled out in a very orderly pattern of asymmetric progressive disclosure.
Recognise when you are using the current
Convinced that openAi figured out how good GPT4 was at coding months ago, and sat on it long enough to build out a huge moat of upcoming releases while everyone else is coding like peasants
What is the main thing, the central promise of Web 3?
First, let's explore what's distinct from Web 1 vs. 2 to Web 3.
Web 3 values:
1) Ownership
2) Security
3) Decentralisation
4) Transparency
5) Verifiability
What does all of this enable?
Sovereignty and synergy to cohere at
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing
Covey had it right for traditional business challenges.
The problem in web3 is - what is the main thing!?
GovHack Scholarship
Have a proposal in mind but can't attend
@Arbitrum
GovHack Brussels (July 5-7) due to financial constraints?
Don’t worry, Arbitrum is family, we’ve got your back.
We're thrilled to offer 20 scholarships, each worth $500 USD!
Here’s what you need to know 👇
Just arrived to Portugal.
Will be in Lisbon this week, then open to travel around.
I’d love to meet with people, visit land, explore dreams, discuss plans with anyone working at the intersection of nature, tech, consciousness.
#refi
,
#solarpunk
,
#regens
I’m building a prototype to monitor & understand ecological state & patterns in a local biotope here in Portugal.
Who’s already working in this area & what sensor, edge compute & storage, mesh network, distributed ledger tech are you using to account for life & its relationships
If you have a vision, the will, skill & heart to be in action you'll find an amazing community of peers within the regenerative ecosystem.
It's time to build, together.
Regen Ecosystem let's curate a 🧵 of resources 👇
A list of list, a map of maps for orientation.
Traveler, there is no path.
The path is made by walking.
Traveller, the path is your tracks
And nothing more.
Traveller, there is no path
The path is made by walking.
By walking you make a path
And turning, you look back
At a way you will never tread again
Traveller, there is
Batman AI - injustice resolution as a service.
The Idea:
An autonomous agent that crawls the web investigates injustice
🕵️♂️compiles evidence
🔍 root cause analysis of the problem
🐝rallies human attention, $, and suggested actions as counter measures
Just arrived to Berlin for
@regensunite
.
I'll be cofacilitating a session with
@SystemsGames
.
Regen Games - an opportunity to play small group games to learn and embody principles of complex & regenerative systems & then apply these principles to your project.