Trans-disciplinary Navigation: Deep Thoughts by the
Token Engineering Community
As our upcoming Hatch focus sharpens, tech stack iterates, cultural build propagates and active community blossoms at phenomenal rates, we take pause to:
💡 Ponder mission critical philosophical underpinnings
🌈 Contemplate Regenerative Stewardship & Incentive Alignment
📜 Debate Transparency & Explore Dispute Resolution
👥 Recognize the wondrously diverse and talented TEC community of ethical builders and thought leaders
🌱 After discovering that the TEC is combining established engineering practices with a complementary cultural framework to build the next generation of decentralized economies and infrastructure, we hope you will come help us build a world with robust and resilient economies and communities by accelerating Token Engineering.
📐 What is the TE Commons? Think Civil Engineering for Digital Economies
Token Engineering Commons? Huh? As definitions of those three individual terms range from academic to meta and from perspective to perspective, the collective definition similarly traverses the swales of the human landscape. But there is a map in the forum musings of our very own @freedumbs00
“…Token Engineers as digital civil engineers of the economies of tomorrow. We are creating new spaces of thought and science. Not just the evolution of finance but the emergence of new digital societies that need similar forethought and design validation for their infrastructure as their physical analogs.”
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“…We are pioneering that ‘breaking ground’ of the digital industry in token engineering. Our Commons provides the environment for token engineers to unite and build the new logistics from the lessons of the old.”
Interested in finding out more about civil-digital engineering & other important TEC Forum posts, take a look👇
https://forum.tecommons.org/t/what-is-the-commons-of-the-tec/236
🌉 Toward Robust & Resilient Economies: Why we need a Token Engineering Commons
If you haven’t perused our most recent featured article, check it out now!
Towards Robust and Resilient Economies and Communities is a collaborative piece by @JessicaZartler and a few other thought provokers and builders in the Token Engineering Community. If you are looking for a concise distillation of why token engineering & why a commons & why the two fit together so elegantly, this resource loaded quick-dive is for you.
From regenerative stewardship & Gravitons to cyber-physical commons & resilient tokenized infrastructure, find out more about how the TEC is weaving Ostrom’s principles into the DAO framework, employing subject matter experts to explore boundaries, conflict management and other processes to keep our Commons healthy for the long haul👇
🕊️ Identifying & Handling Conflicts in the TEC
In the first few sessions of our Gravity Working Group, future Gravitons 👩🚀 dove deep on how to measure the scale of conflicts that can take place in an organization and hypothesized reasonable actions to address that scale of conflicts → a Graduated Sanctions Framework & Guideline:
Small scale conflicts: involves few people
Mid scale conflicts: private but latent
Big scale conflicts: public and manifest
Negotiation: Gravitons witness
Mediation: Gravitons facilitate
Conciliation: Gravitons proposes solutions
Arbitrage: External perspectives
Curiosity piqued? To find out more about the Gravity Working Group, Gravity Training (it’s not too late…see below 👩🚀), and all things TEC conflict management, check out the latest TEC Forum post by @JuanKBell
➰ Scale of Conflicts — Graduated Sanction Guideline
👩🚀 Graviton Training Underway: It’s not too late to become a Graviton…
The third session is this Thursday on the topic of Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA), Negotiations & Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms.
Join us Thursday Feb 4 at 9pm CET / 12 pm PST (right after the weekly TEC community call on our Gravity Voice channel on Discord):
✍️ Signup: https://bit.ly/3sjSUsv
📚 Study Content: https://bit.ly/3ixicyQ
☎ Join discord.gg/YzC5s35
Voting Initiatives
📋 Transparency Audit Proposal
Paraphrased from the TEC Forum proposal by @zeptimusQ & @iviangita (TEC/proposals/forumvoting)
“As TEC is a value-driven community, we believe that transparency plays an important role in exercising integrity in our community…however, we feel that we can go beyond… to promote and reinforce transparency and integrity in our community…propose to conduct a transparency audit across the working groups and help them improve transparency…”
Find out more, become an active member, VOTE👇
https://forum.tecommons.org/t/tec-transparency-audit-proposal/235/5
🗳 Using Celeste for Disputable Conviction Voting
Over the course of a project launch roadmap, there come potential forks in the road where opportunity lies, if openly debated and community decided. Such is the case with the TEC — we have an unexpected opportunity ‘round yonder bend…
Fortunately, the TEC Forum is equipped with a slick, multi-component Proposals Channel that allows for active community votes:
🐝 Advice Process
📣 Forum Voting
💸 Conviction Voting
🌼 Dandelion Voting
To learn more about Celeste and the positive sum collaboration opportunity, check out this voting proposal by @thegrifft in our Advice Process section:
https://forum.tecommons.org/t/using-celeste-for-disputable-conviction-voting-at-launch/225
And now…
💎 The Praise is in! Impact Hour Leaderboard
For participation, TE Commons contributors are acknowledged via a praise bot developed by the Commons Stack and then that Praise is quantified and converted into Impact Hours. Through Telegram and Discord bots and bridges, community members dish Praise to each other to recognize work.
Impact Hours will be converted into TEC tokens at launch. As voted on by the community, the intention is that each hour will be worth somewhere between $20-$200 of contributions covested into the Hatch 🐣.
Congratulations on the hard work everyone and thank you for your contributions to the Token Engineering Commons! 🥳 Here is the full list of Impact Hours awarded for work from January 15 — February 1:
Every contribution counts, and the Token Engineering Commons is incredibly grateful for its 225 active contributors that have earned Praise so far. 🙏 Below is a partial list of total Impact Hours to date, the full list and the math behind its calculation can be found in this spreadsheet
To see a cool chart view of the Impact Hours, check out this visualization from our Community Steward @Santigs67
🌱 Join the Community 🌱
We warmly welcome you to join and share:
👋 Pop by our Discord or Telegram channels, introduce yourself and share what you are working on
☎ Say hi on our weekly community calls at 2pm EST / 8pm CET on our general voice channel on Discord — add it to your calendar
💸 Submit a proposal for funding for your TE project
📑 Read more about our working groups and join one
📣 Follow us on Twitter & Medium to stay up to date on the upcoming hatch
Token Engineering Commons members are also eligible to receive CSTK tokens from the Commons Stack for their Praise. To receive the tokens, members must apply to join the Trusted Seed. For any questions, reach out to @Liviade @GriffGreen @JessicaZartler on our Discord or Telegram.
This article was written by Craig Anderson and Jessica Zartler with edits by Griff Green.
