Considerations Fast Track
The puzzle of selecting each and combining them together is many, but how do we choose?
The Relationship has the first place before any consideration, whether they would be classified as an employee, sporadic contributor, community, owner, served and/or customer. The relationship tightens the solution space even if not directly determine the result. A community member coming for vibes and belonging and a DAO member approaching the DAO for work have different social constructs. Community member might ask (even pay) for ( “right by belonging”, “access to services) and whereas the member approaching work might require (deliverables based, monetary) rewards. Also cognizant we might have more than one relationship type.
A second consideration can be the preferred term for contributors. Do we want long-term social contracts versus short ones? The onboarding guild might encourage new members with short-term engagement, however, a core team for building a product might require long-term committed members. If there is a long-term preference (Longevity commitment based, ) primitives would be suitable where take-back is monetary, ownership or governance.
How about the sustainability of the DAO? For simplicity, let's consider the most explicit usage and share with contributors monetary value and equity utility. Would the organisation be able to sustain the treasury with the value given out? Is there an unplanned dilutive aspect? If so the rewards and compensation become an extractive exercise that terminates the DAO (or subdao) early. If there is no maturity in sizing up the work, deliverable-based primitives like (bounty and monetary) might be easier on the treasury management while learning the burn rate. Having said that, it is ok for DAOs to be short-term or task-based so sustainability might not be the consideration.
The primitives chosen, are they aligned with the objectives of the individuals, intrinsic or extrinsic? I want to give an example which will be a crude generalisation solely based on how the current systems are working in the services industry and science journals. A scientist favouring deliverable-based reputation and a front-end dev deliverable-based cash might nudge a service DAO on monetary primitives, however, a DAO focusing on science journal articles might be granting reputation.
There are a lot more considerations however we must tackle them another time. Other considerations such as diversity of talent and encouraging the flexibility of work, self-expression. The value created for the DAO is it mainly through teamwork or individuals? Does the DAO have a signal that makes it appealing to contribute? Is there trust and whether the reliability of the contributor can be gauged or even necessary? Do the DAO members have a wide range of motivators leading to a buffet-style system? Any impact because of the size of the teams and the size of the DAO Does it require a more generic unified approach? Can peer-evaluated, monetary small groups work?
And the last reminder that your choice can be…
different within a DAO per project or team.
personalised differing from one individual or entity to another.
more than one, bundling them up.
Members, Contributors and other 1001 titles of internet native organisations.
A reward that is not met is a punishment! Is it all about setting expectations?
Wen Full-time? Thinking about the contributor's livelihood.
Balancing a sustainable organisation and compensation - Is it possible?
Alignment to the revenue/value creation model
Scalability Considerations meets Rewards and Compensation
The psychologies of transparency in rewards and compensation. Fair, enough, surprising?
Who are we compensating anyway, individuals, teamwork, or units? An exploration
The appeal. How do you fare?
How to keep your contributors or yourself motivated?
Y’all want something else so how to balance different needs in Rewards and Compensation? (diversity of motivators)
In a temporal and fractional ecosystem, how to maintain long-term participation with rewards and compensation? Does it matter?
It was about all culture always has been - Do your rewards and compensation support your culture?
What to do when you have no resources to compensate? Early Stage organisations.
Delegates the new class in web3 organisations - why are they doing it
Seashells, sigils and cryptic aphorisms - what is next in rewards in tokenised communities?
Wen should you change your rewards and compensation system?
Anti-patterns in rewards and Compensation - programming with Incentives.
Ping us the design considerations we need to tackle
Some backlog
Type of the value created (?)
of cohesiveness of community/team(?)
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