HackHumanity

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We build high trust networks, activate talent & drive innovation by engineering exponential organisations.

[HackHumanity @HackHumanityCo]

Next Wednesday night, Hack Humanity is offering our first GovDojo at Auckland Startup Week.

GovDojo brings people together to build the Governance, AI & Decentralisation that we need now.

Featuring:

• Klaus Brave @klausbrave — Hack Humanity
• Lane Rettig @lrettig — NEAR Foundation
• Alex Sims — University of Auckland
• YOU

GovDojo is not your regular sit-and-listen.

We invite you to get together, share the real challenges in your lives and business, swap notes, help each other out, and take away practical insights, tools, and techniques that advance your mission.

📅 Wednesday, 22 Oct | 5:30–9:30pm
📍 GridAKL / John Lysaght Startup Space
🔗 Register: https://t.co/jLTRh6EoXK

[HackHumanity @HackHumanityCo]

Our third speaker, MC and facilitator for GovDojo, is @klausbrave. Klaus is not only an expert in decentralised governance. He is an adept facilitator, and event-convenor.

Klaus is founder of Hack Humanity, a facilitation and product studio specialised in decentralised governance of AI and blockchains. https://t.co/SGtjAGX3eT

With an extensive background in technology and innovation, Klaus has deep experience of decentralised governance in web3. Klaus has convened GovHack events for decentralised blockchain governance around the world. https://t.co/VjaDq54t2a

Now based in Auckland, Klaus leads the global Hack Humanity team of decentralised governance facilitators.

Klaus is committed to building the technology, social systems, and innovative business models that drive sovereign systems in this exponential age.

You can register for GovDojo on Weds 22 Oct in Auckland at https://t.co/jLTRh6EoXK

[HackHumanity @HackHumanityCo]

Hack Humanity is honoured to have Alex Sims as a speaker at GovDojo in Auckland next week. Alex is a Professor in the University of Auckland Department of Commercial Law, and an Associate at the University College London (UCL) Centre for Blockchain Technologies (CBT).
https://t.co/lZqaVPVTPN
https://t.co/Q4z3ta2orF
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As well as teaching and research in a wide range of commercial law subjects, Alex specialises in blockchain technology, and in particular, DAOs (decentralised autonomous organisations). A leading expert, systems thinker, and challenger of the status quo, Alex will be sure to inspire, challenge and connect around GovDojo’s theme of governance, AI and decentralisation.
https://t.co/ijZx8GSkKV

Register for GovDojo at https://t.co/jLTRh6EoXK

[HackHumanity @HackHumanityCo]

Hack Humanity is honoured to have Lane Rettig as a speaker at GovDojo in Auckland next week.

Lane, a former Ethereum Core Developer, is Head of Research at @NEARFoundation. In that role, Lane is leading the formation of House of Stake, the new governance system for NEAR.

Find Lane at @lrettig and https://t.co/l2NVdN63yq.
Learn more about NEAR and its journey towards decentralised governance in this recent interview with Lane, and NEAR Co-founder @ilblackdragon https://t.co/giYgKicuFS.

Hack Humanity is proud to be a key Build Partner in NEAR’s journey towards decentralised governance through House of Stake DAO.

Register for GovDojo at https://t.co/jLTRh6EoXK

[Klaus Brave (❤️,⚡️) @klausbrave]

NEAR House of Stake DAO mainnet launch today.

As AI becomes increasingly more powerful, humanity must have decentralized governance of AI.

NEAR is on a mission to bring user-owned, humanity-enhancing AI to the world.
And, House of Stake is best placed to provide the governance to make this happen.

House of Stake is focused on both:
Governance of AI, and using AI for Governance.

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On a personal note I've been heads down beavering away the last months with the whole @HackHumanityCo team playing full out and playing our part contributing to get HoS launched.

I'm inspired by the vision and commitment of @NEARFoundation, and incredibly proud of all the devotion and hard work being put in by House of Stake Core team (@NEARGovernance), fellow build partners @gauntlet_xyz & @AgoraGovernance alongside all the community contributors shaping House of Stake.

LFG.

[HackHumanity @HackHumanityCo]

@paulofonseca @defiamrif The Gov Wod

[Klaus Brave (❤️,⚡️) @klausbrave]

Governance is the product.

DAOs as the 21st century institutions we need is the endgame.

Trust in institutions on the planet is at all time lows.

DAOs offer the design and experimentation space to do reps, to iterate and create trusted and effective 21st century institutions.

Right now the promise and the practice of DAOs are diverging.
DAOs are reimporting the worst of our nature in new DAO clothing.

DAOs need an action learning loop:

Theory -> tools -> practice

Holding this view we hold ourselves to a higher standard, we:

Name, detect, build.

We design out the anti-patterns,
the non-virtuous conduct humans in groups have been prey to since the beginning of time.
We incentivise and amplify virtuous conduct.
We do this through tooling, training and incentives prioritised in a culture that recognises that the best governance wins and with that understanding invests in an intentional governance development lifecycle.

DAOs move from won’t be evil,
to can’t be evil,
to a force for good.

Evolving in a feedback loop that calls forth the better angels of our nature,
by design,
by engineering a system that’s an upward spiral aligning action that’s both good for the parts and for the whole.

[Klaus Brave (❤️,⚡️) @klausbrave]

If you work in DevRel, ecosystem growth, issue grants, run hackathons and almost exclusively target developers I think the playbook is about to change.

It’s never been a great ROI in my opinion anyway.

Product, research, design thinking + vibes coding means the critical talent to attract and activity to explore isn’t nuts and bolts software development.

Pivot to ProdRel, FounderRel, DesignRel, GovRel - whatever problem domain you want to solve.

I’ve been dusting off my coding skills lately and the LLMs, the IDEs like Cursor, WindSurf make the idea to prototype loop crazy fast.

The following video from Ycombinator exploring the future of software development is well worth listening to in full.

If you want to custom design a new world hackathon, that’s what I do with @HackHumanityCo - hit me up.

[Klaus Brave (❤️,⚡️) @klausbrave]

The spice must flow.

Wealth is the ability to direct the flow of resources.

DAOs:

- Optimise for flow over control
- Experiment with who creates flows
- Experiment with who receives flows
- Turn flows on/off
- Up & down regulate flows

DAOs as masters of flow

[Klaus Brave (❤️,⚡️) @klausbrave]

Excited to be speaking on this panel tomorrow (3.45pm) on
Failures to Frameworks - Rebuilding DAOs at Governance Day
by @SeedGov & @Curia_gov.

Looking forward to a robust conversation with @ohishi @noturhandle and @mpiekarska8

I'll be speaking from in the trenches experience the last year from knowing not much about DAOs,
to going all in learning about DAOs,
then @Arbitrum DAO in particular, to building a comprehensive ecosystem map,
running a strategic mapathon community co-design process to focus the DAO priorities,
to navigating the governance process to get 2 proposals passed as a new service provider to run GovHack ETHDenver & ETHcc, GovHack is a decentralised governance hackathon for multi-stakeholder IRL trust building and accelerated co-design and development of new proposals for the DAO in a fast feedback loop with all relevant stakeholders IRL.

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What I'd like to talk about in this conversation is the human side of DAOs alongside the tech development roadmap:
- what's the human developmental need to steward and work effectively with these new and promising 21st century structures?
- how do we handle and share power, control, ego?
- decentralisation vs centralisation trade-offs
- appropriate risk/reward taking between stakeholders
- and how we create encouraging spaces that people want to stay around and contribute.

I’ll also explore what functions to replace with automation, starting with human O (organisation) and progressively replacing with A (automation) in the DAO as a developmental trajectory.

[HackHumanity @HackHumanityCo]

@fifestarr @Cyberjam_Art @0xEthChicago @DevrelUni 100% well said Tippi ✊

[Tippi Fifestarr @fifestarr]

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood!” — architect Daniel Burnham. Shoutout to @Cyberjam_Art @0xEthChicago @DevrelUni and @HackHumanityCo for stirring the blood of innovation 🤩

[HackHumanity @HackHumanityCo]

Lets see a pick of the ducks!

Why did we choose this mascot?

Its fun, relevant, effective, we can get stuck solo in our head & working it out out loud helps + Hack Humanity team member @fifestarr advocated for it, @dancunningham ran with it.

“Rubber duck debugging (or rubberducking) is a method of debugging code by articulating a problem in spoken or written natural language.”

https://t.co/Od6zdTjakY

[HackHumanity @HackHumanityCo]

How are all the GovHack ducks doing?

[buzea200👩‍💻👾🫶 @buzea200]

Full week ahead, so Robot Duck and I are getting ready! 🦆

[HackHumanity @HackHumanityCo]

@paulofonseca how are you tracking sir?

[Klaus Brave (❤️,⚡️) @klausbrave]

If you talk about domination in your strategy and comms for your technology are you ETH aligned?

Discuss.

What orientations and operating principles best serve an ecology of actors to produce a composable stack of decentralised, scalable, trusted, reliable global infrastructure, applications and services?

Inspired by @VitalikButerin’s article on alignment https://t.co/qV5Gc1YuwV

[HackHumanity @HackHumanityCo]

@iamTWB_ @DisruptionJoe Delegates with not only incentives, but penalties, skin in the game that's interesting.

[devrel uni 🎓 @DevrelUni]

Ready to launch your career in DevRel? 💫

Applications for DevRel Uni Cohort 6 powered by @arbitrum are officially OPEN!

Dive into a comprehensive program featuring sessions led by @austingriffith, @francescoswiss, @KevinBlancoZ , @geniusyinka, @buzea200, and Coogan Brennan.

[Klaus Brave (❤️,⚡️) @klausbrave]

Hell yes to many more iterations of these kind of educational experiments.

DAO & Governance Games? This is civic training for the twenty x centrury in a real-time action learning cycle.

Bravo

[Klaus Brave (❤️,⚡️) @klausbrave]

Rep’n @arbitrum DAO at the Arbiverse day.
Love this format where people can deeply engage with all the initiatives.

The interest in the DAO and governance is real, getting great questions.