Sam Spurlin is a partner at the Ready, a self-managing organization design consultancy focused on changing how the world works & one of the foremost DAO org design thinkers in the space. We've got him on board for a series of episodes to discuss DAO org design, the tensions that pervade it when the organizational system is not tuned properly & how to address it.

In Part 2 of the series, we set the stage for the DAO org design mindset talking about Sam’s observations of the Ready as a self managing org, talking about the basic fundamentals that DAOs generally face at inception & gradually hitting the OS canvas as a key tool to assess factors that are at the heart of org tensions. Sam also explains how purpose, authority & strategy are at the heart of DAO tensions when the assessment is done & how to address them

Topics Covered

Context for part 2: 00:00 -1:08

Tooling as a way for facilitating DAO org structure: 1:09 - 06:45

Comparing the Ready as a self managing org with DAOs: 06:46 - 11:29

Should DAOs have set parameters of decentralization or voting participation: 11:30 - 17:49

Should DAOs have a proper org design from the early stage of formation: 17:50 - 22:02

Talking about why DAOs or orgs do a reorg when tensions are tough rather than prevention: 22:03 - 26:45

What is OS Canvas & how org tensions are assessed with this canvas: 26:46 - 31:29

Common tensions that DAOs generally face after doing the OS canvas assessment 31:30 - 34:19

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