Meta #46 - Meme Driven Organizations
"The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller" - Steve Jobs
And if the most powerful person in the world is the storyteller, the most powerful thing in the world is a meme. 🤷♂️
First, stop thinking of memes as “funny viral images” and start taking them almost as seriously as genes. Memes are contagious ideas, captioned images are simply most effective at containing them. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Memes have driven people to crusades in the case of religions as well as to build new worlds as in the case of U.S.’ founding fathers.
Not all memes are about doing good, but most successful memes are. And even in the case of bloodiest of religious wars & the most gruesome of ethnic cleansing - these twisted minds did somehow think they were doing good.
Memes are powerful & dangerous, m’kay?
Meme Driven Organizations
When it comes to meme driven organizations, one thing to know is that they don't compete; they aren't here to "win" & their goal is never "to be no.1 in industry X". They are on a mission to solve a specific problem or serve a specific need and every organization doing the same is a potential ally.
Because they are here to play & not to win - meme driven organizations are playing infinite games as opposed to finite games:
A good example of an organization playing a finite game is Volkswagen. Their mission is to be the "no. 1 car manufacturer" - meaning their main goal is to return ever more money to their sharehodlers. The result? Sacrificed morals.
A good example of an infinite game player is Tesla; "to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable transport’." Seems to be working out pretty well so far.
An organization without a meme is a machinery led by numbers - always hungry for more sales, increased market share, scale, scale & scale.
In finite games, whatever is not done in the interest of winning is considered irrelevant & always chasing more profits inevitably leads to sacrifice of values.
Except for sociopaths & psychopaths, you’ll have a hard time finding anyone who wants to work at these places. They’re uninspiring & worse, soul-draining. Coming home from such work makes you want to down some Prozac with whiskey to fill the void. It makes you question the meaning of life.
It seems like more & more people are choosing lower-paid-but-meaningful work over high-paid-corporate work - and it should come as a surprise to noone.
We all need money to survive but we’re all ultimately looking for fulfillment, we want work that feels meaningful. We want to feel proud of the work we do and the organizations we serve. We want to wake up feeling inspired, not dreadful.
Find your meme
Great memes can help you:
Make decisions & plans
Lead & inspire
Rally & build trust
Create value
Time to find your meme, don’t you think?
First, you need to figure out the right question for you.
Give it some thought, or a lot of thought, though it doesn’t seem like you can go wrong using Elon Musk’s question as default:
“What things will have a great impact on the future of humanity’s destiny?”
Seems like one should try to make the world better because the inverse makes no sense. No well-developed human wants to be a villain.
But sir, you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain…
Yes, of course meme driven organizations can stray too; away from their primary purpose and into profit milking.
In MetaGame, we have a key difference preventing us from becoming villains we sought to disrupt:
It’s all open-source 🤷♂️
Anyhow!
The problem with most people is that they see successful people as somehow different than the rest of us - as if they were born successful. They can do things because they can, and we can’t because we can’t.
It’s simply not the case.
“If you have high integrity & you want to go solve a problem, it's probably the case that it'll take you pretty far.” - Riva Tez
Find the biggest problem you can tackle & attack it.
Closing
Expect a rise in meme driven organizations & communities.
Not sure what your meme is?
Maybe start completing these quests until you figure it out? 🙃
🌲❓ Evergreen Quests
🧠 Learn or Teach - We need more knowledge to spread! Go to the #🧠-brain-exchange channel and post “I want to learn X” or “I can teach someone Y”.
🌱 Plant Yo Seedz - If you’ve been holding your Seeds for a while, its about time you plant some - you’re going to need to do that sooner or later 🙃.
🙆 Diversify - We have people from all over the world. From US to Europe, to India, Asia & Australia. So, who’s missing? Women. Help bring more women to MetaGame.
🔨 Bring a Builder - MetaGame needs moar builders! Help us find some by reading through the role description. Bonus points if they’re from the old world of Web2.
🤑 Onboard a Patron - MetaGame still hasn’t reached the Patrons cap 😱! Get someone to buy 5 Seeds & plant them 🙃
❓ Quests
✏️ Moar League Perks - We are putting together a list of perks for attaining higher leagues (top 100 of 300), go drop some ideas on what you would want these perks to be.
✏️ Elder - We need more of the people who already found their way in Ethereum, to write their playbooks for people of similar angles & backgrounds. Check what Cooper did then do something similar.
✏️ FreeMasonin’ - We got the House of Ethereum, we got the House of DAOs, Vanilla is writing the House of DeFiance & Uranus is writing the House of Permaculture… What about the House of Tokens? House of dApps? House of Philosophy? House of Worldviews? House of… Anything? Just go ahead and write something.
🎨 Designing Ranked Leagues - We need new icons designed for the ranked leagues; Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum & Diamond. Ask for more info or feedback in the #🎨-artists-guild.
🎨 Season1 Achievements - We’ll be minting achievement NFTs for the people who participated in Season1. Eg. “Season1 Diamond Leaguer”, “Best Shepherd Season1” etc. need designs for these achievements. Need more ideas? Ask in #🎨-artists-guild.
🎨 Seed Subscription - We need someone to design the Seed subscription page.
🎨 Help Plant Seedz - We need someone to design the interface for interacting with the Seed market & the pool.
🛠️ Protec Forums - We want to make forums only accessible to pSeed or NFT keycard holders, check the post or message peth for more info.
🛠️WhereMuhMemes - Linking wiki pages doesn’t bring up their photo - it should.
🛠️ Forum Theme Alignment - We want the forum to be in the same color scheme as the rest of MetaGame, check the link for more info.
🛠️ Drawing Apps - There’s a bunch of smaller issues around the app drawer currently up on my.metagame.wtf
🛠️ Openin’ Appz - Currently all the apps opening from the app drawer open in a new page - can’t build the MetaOS like this. Make all apps open inside iframe windows without leaving the page. We know iframes suck, its temporary, promise 😛
🛠️ Pimp MyMeta - We need people to be able to add more info to their MyMeta profiles, otherwise we’re failing to deliver the promise. Add the “add new block” functionality & a template.
🛠️ Role Select - We decided revamp the onboarding system by having people create profiles first & use them to apply. One of the crucial things is having a role select screen during the profile creation on MyMeta rather than on Discord.
Assign to yourself, ask to be added to the organization if needed.
🤔 Open Roles
☸️ Guild Navigator - Help newcomers find things to learn & ways to contribute based on their background & interests.
☔ Rainmaker- Usually filled by patrons, rainmaker role is about bringing in more patrons to support MetaGame by buying Seeds.
💡 Productizer - They help turn projects that MetaGame is building into products for other organizations to use. Eg. MyMeta.
🤯 Headhunter- They are out there looking for people to fill the above roles.
NOTE: Don’t be afraid to ask any question about any of these quests, raids or roles. You can do so by commenting directly on their Notion posts or Github issue or in the quest-ask or skill-specific-guild channels.
⛓️ S1W7 Chainlog 📜
7 weeks down, 6 to go!
Penguin gets us a page in the MagNFT magazine & MLIBTY submits an awesome artwork for it 👆
MetaRadio team drops another episode - Adoption Where It Matters with Nadia of MakerDAO & MetaGammaDelta
mrfeelgood continues building the UI library & publishes the first draft of the MyMeta Dashboard 😱
mprime officially takes up the Meetup Master role.
ben.oxmo writes a playbook on joining the crypto space
ace-smart closes his first issues - welcome to the game!
dysbulic closes another one
trapmoneyNiles & penguin coordinate to do a DeFi learning session
dysbulic shillis MetaGame & a bunch of baby projects in ETHDenver’s team-formation channel on discord
Penguin gives us a talk about bioinformatics during the regular friday Community Gathering.
paco & wesley do a call discussing TokenLog & the future of MetaGame’s questing system, summary here
The second ever drama erupts, there will be more about it soon but go to #devils-advocate if you’re too curious to wait.
eowulia produces Gnomeski’s Occult Practices talk into a short podcast episode
Vanilla & Luxumbra update all discord roles. Lost your rank? 😱
Luxumbra overtakes burrrata for #4; heterotic, Ronin, & Sparrow reach Platinum league, Gnomeski & Uranus reach Gold
Nemo, Misanth & Gelee continue making sense & setting structure for proper project management/oversight through Notion & ZenHub
We had an awesome design sprint for the MetaFest 👀 - moar next tiem.
Onwards! 🐙
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