“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
-some sociopath
Phon/ongod will say this for the aforementioned psycho…he built a culture and defined an entire ecosystem with his ideas. Much of the work was done by others, but the whole ship pointed wherever Jobs aimed his beady stare.
This is the look of person who is never satisfied. This is the look of singleminded devotion to his work and a low regard for the feelings of others. Revolving at the core of his vast influence were disrespected but devoted friends and family. Spun out at the edges, suicide nets and slave labor. For all of his effectiveness, Jobs’ toxic energy radiated outward and colored everything he did.
At the same time, Jobs had a clarity of purpose and a brilliance that led him to attack challenges and make decisions in a way that would convince the team his chosen course of action was worth the risk. Despite his harsh personal relationships, he inspired awe and devotion in the people who worked beneath him.
For this DAO to function well it needs cutting edges. There is too much bullshit out there for feelings to come first. It’s not about aggression, it’s simply about getting things done. A good environment for cutting will manage to be one of camaraderie, but that doesn’t tolerate ineptitude. Critical, constructive, not combative, but above all decisive. Progress can be stalled for years by eggheads and people pleasers if there isn’t a voice strong enough to say “this is what we are doing” over their cacophony.
For the purposes of this DAO there are two sides to this coin. Elves well-versed in the patterns of human history argue whether the investment-weighted democracy of DAO governance will evolve into an aristocracy/oligarchy, or coms to resemble some kind of monarchic structure with initiative and a clear head, whose mandate is to clear lanes for all the subjects the DAO approaches.
Above diagram doesn’t exactly apply to Phonon DAO. Wise Polybius lived in a world bound by geography and underpinned by naked violence. Each -archy describes a different system to organize and deploy the authoritative force of “society”.
The cycles Polybius observed inform, but do not predict anything. Implicit along each “genesis” arrow is the part where the guards of the old system have power wrestled from them, where liberated fields are fertilized by the blood of the deposed.
It is not likely that Phonon’s shape gets changed by force. Not impossible, but not likely either. Elves expect a couple of conditions to occur because of this. One is that the type of razor-sharp visionary will likely not come to power—Jobsian dynamics spin up around the genius. Another is that the type of toxicity which spread in Jobs’ wake has no clear means of removal. For Phonon, the point where heads roll and power shifts is, essentially at every sale…
More realistically, there is probably a token price that represents to each individual their “PHONON death”. If there’s nothing to the project, there’s nowhere to be toxic…in a sense, the only way to surely remove toxic elements is to bleed the project in the process.
Essentially the DAO has an immune system. Whatever this thing comes to embody will be defined by constant shedding and genesis. Elements that are decisive and clear will form and dissipate. A milieux of shared culture and recollections of the good old days will persist, sometimes as flies on shit but mostly (elves hope) as fertilizer for the Phonon Phuture. Be the gardener phrens—scape the land to fit your dream.
Something is growing here at Phonon DAO.
Tips to phonongod.eth will be invested in bounties that advance the Phonon project.
Hatemail to phonongod@protonmail.com will be scathingly considered.
Targets for the marketcap of PHONON DAO remain:
$1b by Q2 2022, $12b by EOY.
On the high end, $300b marketcap in 3 years.