One of the greatest gifts of the past year or so has been the amazing people I’ve met as a result of tumbling down the crypto and web3 rabbit hole.
I ventured into the Krause House Discord in June to experience a bit of the off-the-charts creative juju that I was hearing about via the crypto grapevine.
Well, I found that incredible energy…but best of all, I also found Flex Chapman, co-founder of Krause House.
I was so happy that Flex joined me last Friday on the vlog. He was super gracious with his time and our nearly one-hour jam session meandered through:
▹ The importance of working a ritual of “pause and reflect” into one’s life. (Flex brought up a surprising analogy found in the world of software development!)
▹ The best DAO onboarding experience I’ve had to date.
▹ Flex’s re-discovery of the power of cohort-based activities.
▹ Flex’s journey through the Seed Club accelerator (and how there may be no such thing as a blueprint or subject matter expert in crypto).
▹ Why a broader conception of onboarding may be needed, embracing the entire DAO community and helping folks onramp to web3, DeFi, etc. (Krause House University, here we come!)
▹ FWB pets, plants & home decor channels…folks have a million other places on the Web to talk about these things, but they choose to do so in the FWB Discord. What’s the secret sauce?
▹ Understand the user persona, says Flex. There’s a wide array of people coming through a Discord with unique goals and interests. But…We can’t solve for everyone, either.
▹ What does Flex think are the top psychological motivations that drive not just membership but deep commitment to a DAO? (h/t Scott Mandel.)
▹ How do you protect the vitality and creative energy of an org while setting up forms/ structures to support its growth?
▹ The most powerful paradox: passionately believing everything is broken while simultaneously, deeply surrendering and trusting in the process. Ask, Flex says, what could go right?
▹ Take those 1:1 calls with your fellows in the DAO! Voice > text. Game-changing, says Flex.
▹ What’s the most powerful question you can ask on a 1:1?
signing off, with gratitude to Flex,
C