Author: Альона ꑭ Шевченко
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Better late than never
✨EFFICIENT WORK CULTURE - @Ukraine_DAO 🧵
⚡️Disclaimer: by no means am I claiming we are an examplary team
✨What I do claim: we do get much more shit done for Ukraine in a day, with no ops budget, than @ICRC, @UN and other assholes with huge budgets
Would it be helpful if I wrote up how I see efficient work culture? We are improving onboarding at @Ukraine_DAO and I thought maybe it's actually better if I write this up publicly - would be easy to share with people who are considering joining us. Thoughts? 🧐 https://t.co/qVDX0yYoGn
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📚Most of good tips on how to organise work are covered in this 🧵 by @MichaelShchur, diligently translated into English by our Translation & Writing Pod Lead @garbanzo0813
✅ TLDR: before criticising someone, make sure you've done your own fucking job
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Original by @MichaelShchur
https://t.co/hR1zxW5mRA
Uncensored translation:
Do you know what I've been taught in the army in 2015-16 and what I understood only now? Long thread below.
#StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar #StopRussia
📚 Essential reading - THE ADVANTAGE BY PATRICK LENCIONI
✅ Recommended to me by @BlockGeekDima
✅ The book is not about DAOs. The book is about how to organise any group of people to get anything done
Facts. In @Ukraine_DAO we have separate working groups for every workstream, otherwise not much would get done. Most groups have dedicated projects in @asana for task management. Here's helpful advice on it from "The Advantage" by Patrick Lencioni: https://t.co/2bk8FvkPPK https://t.co/AFfwIIxA6S
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No one has time for petty internal "politics" within @Ukraine_DAO team We are extremely picky about contibutors we onboard.
The general policy is to onboard people we have already established a friendship with and we are sure they are aligned with us
✨Everyone who genuinely supports Ukraine is welcome to be part of our community
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✨Being a good culture fit is pretty much the only requirement for team members.
❌ When values/goals are not aligned, there's going to be unnecessary tension - we don't have time for it. https://t.co/SYla8Umicn
Here's a page describing our Mission and Values
The core principle @Ukraine_DAO operates under:
❗ We are NOT "neutral". We take sides when we see people and countries being wronged. There is no virtue in being neutral in the face of evil
www.notion.so: FunDAOmentals - Mission & Values
⁉️ I also don't understand why in DAOs (decentralised autonomous organisations), decentralising for the sake of it is seen as something that's always positive
Example: We got a lot of backlash at first for donating over $4m to @BackAndAlive
2/ I previously addressed this in our Discord. There are very few “civilians” in #Ukraine right now. Virtually each and every one of them has to become a warrior and fight for their lives. More than happy to speak about this more because I know the real situation there. https://t.co/tpGZinXR9R
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As you can see, someone has to take charge & to be accountable Distribution of decision making is cool, but during genocide we don't give a fuck about where someone in the US thinks we should donate to, in order for them to feel good about themselves
6/ These are my main academic qualifications. I'm also a qualified translator: https://t.co/jlrSrAqFWH
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You know what I have to do every day? Begging for heavy weapons everywhere I can so that my family survives this and I can see them again. Is this normal? https://t.co/ycPFxFW6ha
Basically, what you want to have:
✅ minimal "politics" (as in, within the team) ✅ minimal confusion (point for improvement for us) ✅ high morale & productivity (can't complain re @Ukraine_DAO) ✅ low contributor turnover (so far we only had 1 person leave 👇)
✨ Life Will Win Over Death ✨
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✨ Light Will Win Over Darkness ✨
🎀 Ukraine DAO Has Won Over Pussy Riot 🎀
Most important point:
🌱 Conflict can be the engine of rejuvenation and creating better versions of ourselves.
❗️Conflict within the team is to be addressed heads on and NOT to be avoided at all costs
✨Love @duartedao talk "Awareness of the Continuum - Facilitation and DAOs":
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✨"There is more social value to honest conflict than dishonest harmony."
@TheDAOist_ @eth_barcelona #CryptodrftngBarcelona #Web3ForGood #MadeWithAmor #CryptodrftngDAO https://t.co/gxjQBN0VsU
👏Constructive criticism is welcome
At the same time:
❓Don't like something?
✅ Together with bringing up the problem, make sure to bring a suggested solution.
🚨Don't expect me or anyone else to make things better just because you noticed something isn't good enough
2/ I'm a very open person and I'm pretty sure that I take in feedback and constructive criticism pretty well. A couple months ago I went for a walk with @serjtys who was considering joining @Ukraine_DAO and he said he was considering joining us but we were not transparent enough.
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❗️ If you can't collaborate in a Google Doc, there is no app/DAO tool that will save you 👇
1/ 💯Same goes for "complex DAO tools" - let's not make them complex then? 😂
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A lot of @Ukraine_DAO contributors have limited to no experience with Web3/crypto, we adjust the tools to them instead of trying to do it the other way around: https://t.co/8hU5QUtfFV https://t.co/TvHpLARFyJ
What is a DAO and how to use it for activism - 🧵
1/ 🔥 Using DAOs for activism - 🧵 by @iamcrumplecat, a new team member onboarding to join us (welcome!)
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📚 Haven't read it myself yet but I'm sure there loads of interesting stuff here - will read through it asap. I'm going to share a few useful links too
#CryptodrftngDAO https://t.co/WXNl7aY9mq
⁉️ Why create a DAO when you can donate directly? - 🧵
1/ This is a great question, @WillManidis - a lot of people asked me this in the early days of @Ukraine_DAO
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❓ Why create a DAO when you can donate directly? - 🧵
✨ This is what Ukraine DAO achieved since then that wouldn't have been possible without it: https://t.co/VRVr53PwOq
Key 🧵 about @Ukraine_DAO - ⬇️
1/ Unwritten rule of Ukraine DAO No 1 (need to make it a written rule 😅)
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❗️There are no stupid questions!
#CryptodrftngDAO
✨ Key 🧵 about @Ukraine_DAO - ⬇️ https://t.co/sKZ0GU9MeP
This is an ongoing 🧵and I'll be adding stuff to it later
Other points: ✅ we don't have team meetings ✅ async-first communication unless otherwise agreed. That means people will reply to you when they can
3/ What I've found is there's no approach/framework that can be applied to Ukraine DAO and not cause some issues so we pick and choose + accept that we can't anticipate everything and some mistakes will be made along the way + things will change and the DAO will change overtime.
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✅ if someone isn't replying, that's not that ignoring you - you aren't the centre of the Universe
🚨If it's urgent, message again, or message someonr else, or just call
Hope this helps someone!
This is what all of the above applied in practice looks like - 🧵
Spoiler alert: it's a lot of fun 😹
1/ Starting a 🧵 with my favourite messages that I receive from Ukraine DAO contributors and friends, this stuff deserves to be seen.
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This is one of our team members replying to my "how are you?" https://t.co/tI15SHAKDW
This 🧵 is a must read 👇
1/ On Being Efficient With Busy People
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This is a thread for people at junior to mid stages in their career (people at senior levels generally operate this way and, at very senior levels, they all operate this way).
It is updated for 2022 practices