Creating the conditions for DAO contributors to meaningfully build community is the greatest web3 design challenge in 2022.

David Spinks knows this. In his interview with Jess Sloss on the Seed Club pod he said this: "You never launch a community, you're consistently always building it."

Community requires facilitation. People who have facilitated small to mid-sized formations before entering web3 will be some of the most valuable contributors to DAOs in 2022. These are the people who instinctively look for breadcrumbs of shared interest, who have an insatiable curiosity for the human experience.

These are the high-value contributors who not only use the language of connection (gm, wgmi, lfg) but who also engage in a daily practice of connection. This daily practice of connection is how we will create the conditions for contributors - for people - to be the best versions of themselves. This is what excites me about web3, about DAOs.

The ongoing process of creating community requires experimentation. It requires risk. It requires an authentic vulnerability that we all could benefit from having a little more of in our lives. That looks like asking the dumb questions (spoiler: there are no dumb questions), it looks like remaining humble (you were new to this space at one point too). This looks like always tinkering to make things better for the people who are here, with an eye toward shaping the space for the people yet to come.

DAOs also challenge us to reframe how we measure success. In web2, success was determined by scale and growth. Escape velocity was the carrot worth hustling for (see The Cold Start Problem, by Andrew Chen). Let’s leave that mindset in web2. Frankly it’s boring.

How do we measure success in web3? Jess Sloss has an idea.

https://twitter.com/thattallguy/status/1471574325497008128?s=20

How we measure success in web3 will be a measure of how often we get that feeling. And that feeling all depends on how we create the conditions for people to show up and contribute.

Web3 is more human than it is technical. My suspicion is that 2022 will reveal the ways in which web3 and DAOs facilitate our return to a shared human experience. And the only way to accomplish this is through building community.