Aragon Use Cases
The Aragon DAC is spinning up so I offered to get involved and was referred to Cris Abraham. He suggested working on a use case on how a traditional company moving to Aragon, advantages, benifits etc. I iterated once, touched base, adjusted and repeated to get things to this point: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZHQzybeAaEQ0Qk5exAiq-F9dTnMlgekDEwU2TnWFcJQ/edit?usp=sharing
Doing so showed up a load of cracks in the example case so the learnings are being refactored. I quite like the Uber example Chris is now suggesting but in parallel Michael's got a real life case study to tie in. For that we decided to start by listing the value propositions a DAO can offer and then see what that starts looks like. It will either be long and require a boil down, or it will be short but detailed around a particular set of tangible advantages. For that we agreed to try compiling stuff here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LwnF6APigYZml1AZxAsqhvAhfcCAWh_JYbX75IvkbJA/edit
For the Uber > Aragon use case Chris wanted, I've so far done nothing but anyone may work on it also and get involved in DAC stuff. I'm starting to tapping things up here for that: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10AWasPh2gMYrP3hfq15JhcReDqOaXYwat4mSPdWkMLY/edit?usp=sharing
Marko Prljic Sat 8 Dec 2018 8:01PM
Michael Shea Sat 8 Dec 2018 8:36PM
Very interesting.
I am fascinated by this concept, and would really like to see how it can really be useful and not an intellectual exercise.
I do find the concept where trust is enshrined purely in code and not in a combination of the group and code a little puzzling and quite possibly short sighted.
Michael Shea Thu 20 Dec 2018 10:22AM
Ok, I have been struggling with where a DAO actually add true business value. I listen/read the different positions and points, and still come back to a situation where people are trying to remove people out of the decision making process because of lack of trust or poor organizational cultures.
This seems like a situation where the 'efficiencies' gained will be Pyrrhic and the organization will more than likely fail due to the original trust and cultural deficiencies. I am very interested in being educated or convinced that the value is different, but so far I can't see it.
That said, I think I have found a use case where a DAO/DAC would be useful, and value adding. This is in the case where you have swarms of edge computing devices that need to collaborate on a task or set of tasks. The composition of the swarm could be dynamic along with the bidding/assignment of tasks.
With the burgeoning of IoT devices (now more IoT devices than people on the earth) each of these devices has computing power, and for a great deal of the time these devices are just sitting idle. Connecting these to a mesh network and making their capacity (computing or storage) available could provide multiple orders of magnitude of computing capability available and even lower costs than AWS or Azure. How these swarms could/would be managed, is somewhere DAOs/DACs could add real value. I believe the interactions between devices is much simpler than that of humans.
I don't pretend to be an expert on DAOs/DACs so would like your thoughts around this.
Marko Prljic Fri 21 Dec 2018 2:20PM
This is very interesting thinking Mike. DAO for robots (IOT). We were thinking only about people, organisations, communities and limited ourselves to take it beyond.
Josh Fairhead Thu 20 Dec 2018 12:55PM
Good thoughts Michael, I've been reevaluating also. I'm kinda at the thought that a DAO is the digital twin of a co-op (processes)... Like HolocracyOne kinda exhibits apart from it was conceived first then built. DAO is unconcieved and built as you fly.
Marko Prljic · Fri 7 Dec 2018 7:55PM
Superb! I just noticed it's 4PM my time so we're all good :)