Stephen Reid & Rufus Pollock on Worker Cooperatives and DAOs
Channel: Life Itself
Date: 28/06/2022

In this episode of our Making Sense of #Crypto & #Web3 series, Life Itself's Rufus Pollock sits down with Stephen Reid to discuss worker cooperatives, DAOs and the potential of blockchain technology to facilitate institutional innovation.

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0:00 Introduction
2:34 What is a worker cooperative?
5:55 What challenges do worker coops face?
11:48 Conflict resolution in a worker cooperative
23:00 The potential of daos
28:52 Why is participatory budgeting and ‘rage quitting’ not common in traditional organizations?
47:00 The struggles of institutional innovation within traditional systems
59:14 What inner work is required to assist the growth of cooperatives?

Stephen Reid is a teacher, technologist and coach devoted to the flourishing of Life on Earth. He has trained in the fields of complexity science, physics, software development, transformational coaching, meditation and plant medicine. He is currently teacher of the How to DAO, Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance, The Promise of Decentralisation and Introduction to web3 courses, and a member of the not-for-profit worker co-operative Dandelion Collective.

Find out more:

How to DAO: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jxbb3YkrjAT1TUe6W2yCFUAsXUhdVt5JYoJwmMfykoQ/edit 
Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance: https://dandelion.earth/events/5fd23eae6824a9000d43006e
The Promise of Decentralisation: https://dandelion.earth/events/605f1caeed084e000d44e844
Introduction to Web3 courses: https://dandelion.earth/events/623c3fccf9cf930011212aa1 
The Dandelion Collective: https://dandelion.coop/Dandelion-Collective-c9e965731fee4e9d8fe58dc511112178 

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