Saulthorin Briefing Document
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General Discovery
Researched by: Tobias
About the event
- Project: talentDAO
- Guests: Saulthorin
- Topic: DeSci & talentDAO
- Event schedule: 07/19 10AM PST
- NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE
About our guest speaker
- Include guest name(s); try to include name pronunciation.
- Saulthorin (pronounced as written)
- This is what she gave to me prior the finalizing the doc, so make sure to spend some time talking about DeSci in general:
- “Lately I've had the urge to talk more about building inclusive communities in science.”
- “DAOs are more effective if they can activate the cross-cultural intelligence of their entire network. The only way to do that is by building an inclusive network from the start.”
- Write a short bio about the guest(s) including their role at the project they are speaking about.
- Find one or two things that are unique or interesting about our guest. Little known facts are great! i.e. owns two Shiba Inus in real life so bought a lot of SHIB.
- Trans woman (from her Twitter, so this is public knowledge)
- Describe their crypto journey thus far. i.e. graduated from college in 2016, got their first bitcoin as a graduation gift, fell down the rabbithole of Ethereum, launched a DeFi protocol in 2020.
- Organizational Psychologist and Data Scientist “gone rogue”. Core founder at talentDAO.
- How has their crypto journey impacted their decision to join/launch the project they work on today?
- Wants everyone on the talentDAO Discord server to go bankless by 2030.
- What are some notable achievements that increase their web3 reputation?
- Long-standing contributor to BanklessDAO and Lobby3 DAO.
About the project
- What is the general positioning of the project? i.e. DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, governance.
- Emerging project in the DeSci space. Quote from the website: “Join us in advancing the greatest human coordination experiment in history.”
- Community of organizational scientists, strategists and researchers building the world's first decentralized community-reviewed publication protocol for the social sciences
- What is the value proposition of the project? How does it clearly differentiate itself from others in the web3 space?
- talentDAO’s mission: “To unlock human potential in the decentralized, digital economy. We conduct scientific research that helps DAOs thrive while educating the public on the greater decency and agency offered from this decentralized future of work.”
- How does it benefit it community members and general web3 communities at large?
- Quote from Saulthorin’s Twitter: “I'm pretty sure whatever research findings talentDAO uncovers over the next five years will be foundational to how DAOs are built over the next 50 years. We are just one good idea away from making history.”
- Is it bridging blockchains, protocols, tools, communities, etc.?
- Quote from the website: “Knowledge should be open-source. Traditional researchers are forced to operate in a closed source universe because they are incentivized to publish or perish. This is unacceptable. At talentDAO we are creating mechanisms to incentivize open-source publications.”
- Does it bring a unique vision or approach to solve challenges in web3?
- talentDAO wants to create a community-reviewed research journal.
- How does it improve the web3 ecosystem?
- “People should have the freedom to work how and when they want without relying on institutions or third parties for their livelihood.”
- “Traditional and hierarchal approaches to work have led to human coordination failures. These coordination failures can not be repaired within our current work paradigms.”
- Generally, how does the product work?
- Provide basic information about the product
- Journal of Decentralized Word (flagship product)
- “First decentralized publication protocol for the social sciences. The JODW will be an open-access journal that addresses problems with the current scientific publication model such as misaligned incentives and the replication crisis.”
- “We will do this by leveraging some of the most promising web3 technologies including NFT integration and a native token.”
- “TalentDAO is building a community reviewed publication protocol for the social sciences called the Journal of Decentralized Work (JODW). The JODW is reviewed and published based on community vote and review by a panel of delegates.”
- Outline a few mid to high-level topics about the product
- Research as-a-Service
- “Many DAOs are making incredibly important decisions on things like Governance, Compensation, and Onboarding and doing so based on intuition and what 'feels right. Our core team of organizational scientists and researchers help DAOs measure outcomes and run experiments to test their assumptions and progress in a scientifically rigorous way. Clients will have the option of publishing said research in the Journal of Decentralized Work.”
- Newsletter of Decentralized Work
- Latest updates on talentDAO’s work and thought leadership at the intersection of DAOs and organizational science.
- DAO Academy
- “We will build a series of courses [both synchronous and asynchronous] for individuals and organizations who want to learn about and get involved in DAOs.”
- Practical applications of product.
- Detail current functionality of project, where it is deployed, TVL.
- talentDAO currently operates a Discord server and notion page for coordination.
- Potential use cases.
- Annual conference
- Web3 Skills/role database
- DAOlogist wiki: “science-backed resources, guides, and best practices for enabling highly effective decentralized internet native workplaces.”
- Compensation Perception: DAO Worker Compensation Study
- DAO Health Assessment: Measuring the organizational health of DAOs
- Measuring diversity in DAOs
- Assessing DAO onboarding practices
- Decentralized Leadership Study
- Outline steps for a beginner to get started.
- Read the manifesto
- Join the Discord server
- Join the weekly onboarding call or bi-weekly community calls
- Become one of the Genesis Club once open
- Funding goal: 28 ETH
- Tier 1 membership starts at 1,000 USD
- Token economy.
- “TalentDAO relies on a native governance token for community voting where token holders are granted decision rights over the DAO and influence which papers are selected for publication.”
- “Every Genesis Club member is entitled to hold a position with voting rights. Each membership tier progressively grants more decision making power over the DAO.”
- Ask Saulthorin how Genesis Club voting rights align with governance token voting rights!
- Any recent, meaningful updates to the project.
- Roadmap/future applications
- Technical updates
- Community updates or changes
Resources
References
- Relevant project links including discord, website, twitter, podcast, medium, mirror, substack, gitbook, etc.
- Social media details of the guest.
- Discord: saulthorin#7696
Sources
- List every source used to curative the information in this outline. including blogs, tweets, sources of images, websites, youtube videos, interviews, podcasts, books, etc.
- See references