Long-form thinking on governance design, operations, and the gap between the two. Drawn from the work, not the theory.
What decides whether a governance system works is everything that happens after the diagram is drawn, in the unglamorous day to day that almost nobody sees.
Read note →SIP-39 passed with 80% approval. Twenty tools to shut down or hand over. Every active proposal individually resolved. The phase nobody prepares you for, and the three things winding down a $10M governance system taught me.
Read note →Forty-eight SIPs. Twelve delegates. Four grant managers. Two-week cycles for nearly two years. What running a $10M DAO looks like from the inside, and the one lesson that changed how I think about governance.
Read note →Eight months of design before launch. Constitution, treasury workflow, compliance stack, legal wrapper, and a distributed team of seven across five countries. The first phase of a $10M governance system, and why it could not be rushed.
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