Frontiers Of Coordination #4 Aaron Of Govrn On Governance Corruption & Transparency

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It's never too late to talk about decentralized governance, says Aaron the founder of Govrn. So in this episode, Peth and Aaron discuss the question of "How do we turn politics from a negative-sum game (what it is right now) into a positive-sum game? How can we realign our incentives to be on the same team?"

Govrn builds bottom-up coordination tools for DAOs with the motto "For everything that governs you, you should be able to govern back." At Govrn, they see all types of contributions as governance; you are voting with every action you take.

Some of the topics are:

• Bottom-up incentive structures
• Bounties for politicians
• Outcome coalitions
• Staking your work
• Arguments for transparent bribery
• Putting check and balances on the leaders
• The importance of rewriting Manifestos
• How to keep organizations fluid

Growing up, Aaron was always interested and engaged in politics. He did a lot of work on incentive alignment to understand organizational behavior while doing management consulting for a large firm. This firm made him learn about blockchain and DAOs. When he realized the possible implications of DAOs on society, he became obsessed with it. So he quit his job and went full time into DAOs.

“I think a lot of people define themselves by the organization they're part of. But that's not it. The organization doesn't define you, you define the organization."

Resources:

• Aaron Soskin
• Govrn
• An Intro to Outcome-Based Donations
• The Office (American TV series)
• RaidGuild
• The Evolution of Trust
• Letter To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1787