Too many cooks in the kitchen

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From reading this thread and @zeframlou’s thread I see two camps:

  1. form a leadership group now
  2. let the wisdom of the crowd do its thing

I want to suggest that there are more options than this binary.

Special Interest Groups
Rather than investing a single group of representatives with executive power, we could create special interest groups self-organized around around specific topics. Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organizations, discusses this approach in this 16min video.

There are various ongoing initiatives in this group with little structure. For collective intelligence to function optimally, offloading work into smaller groups to process and present their findings to the larger group makes sense, but there is no real need for this to be one team at the top (and many reasons for it not to be).

There could be SI groups for emission and inflation model, yVault planning, governance, communications, etc. These could be formed on an ad hoc basis and embodied by discord categories.

But whether it’s a leadership group or SI groups we also need to consider how decisions will be made which is critical to the effective functioning of this body. On-chain voting is great for deciding on emissions models, but is it the right tool for deciding on what token should fill our next yVault or designing a new logo? How much weight should we put in polls that can be easily manipulated? In tightly knit communities social pressure and strong ties can support advanced decision making like the advice process—but could they work for this emergent group?

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