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Organizations
Bookmarks
1944 OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual
The 1944 OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual — a declassified CIA document on how ordinary citizens can disrupt enemy organizations through deliberate inefficiency. Accidentally reads as a how-to guide for bad management.
Transformative Autonomous Organizations
Black Sky Nexus's piece on Transformative Autonomous Organizations — a more radical framing of DAO governance that goes beyond token voting to explore how autonomous organizations could fundamentally restructure economic coordination and power relationships.
Reinventing Organizations: Fundamental Assumptions
The Reinventing Organizations wiki introduces Frederic Laloux's developmental model of organizations — the 'Teal' paradigm of self-management, wholeness, and evolutionary purpose as the successor to traditional hierarchical management.
The Future of Work Is Decentralised
Florian Strauf's Medium essay arguing that DAOs represent the next organizational form for knowledge work — replacing hierarchical employment with fluid contributor relationships, token incentives, and permissionless participation. 2022-era DAO optimism.
Colony — Decentralized Organization Platform
Colony is a DAO platform focused on decentralized organizations — structured around teams, tasks, and reputation rather than pure token voting. An alternative DAO framework that tries to capture work contribution as a governance signal.
Other Internet — Research Collective
Other Internet is a research collective and studio exploring the social, organizational, and cultural implications of internet-native institutions — particularly DAOs, crypto protocols, and new forms of online coordination. Produces longform research that goes deeper than most crypto commentary.
A Taxonomy of Software Consultants
Erik Dietrich's taxonomy categorizes software consultants by how they create value — from pure staff augmentation through deep specialization to productized expertise. A useful map for thinking about career trajectories in technical consulting.
How to Get Promoted
Defmacro's contrarian take on corporate promotions — arguing that performance reviews are social fiction and actual advancement happens through visibility, relationship capital, and strategic positioning rather than merit alone. Cynical but useful.