WTF are The Great Houses & Playbooks?
WTF are The Great Houses & Playbooks?
These two have been going for a while, and while most of the active community is aware they exist, I never really properly introduced them to the wider community 😬
So, here we go!
In short, both of these are meant to make your navigation of the space smoother. Great Houses with their broad overview & Playbooks with their precise steps.
The Great Houses
The Great Houses are all about giving a meta view of a field of interest.
They each contain a few paragraphs of explanation & a few bullet points recapping the most important bits. This is then followed up by a few categories of links to all the most important resources. Note: most important - not all ever.
These include things like:
Additional learning resources
Tools & avenues to explore
Communities of practice
Playbooks
Books
Given we’re building an onboarding machine & a decentralized factory mainly focused on the Ethereum space, these are the Great Houses currently in existence:
They are all in various stages of development & there will be more. Please do suggest improvements to any of the existing ones or start building a new one.
Playbooks
As opposed to the meta view the Great Houses give, Playbooks are meant to give out the exact steps one should take to achieve certain goals.
Basically, short & sweet tutorials, currently mainly focused on helping people onboard the space with things like:
How to Join the DAO space as a person-of-specific-background
How to Join the NFT space as an artist or a collector
How to Be Useful in the DeFi space as xyz
You get the idea 🤷♂️
Current Playbooks:
Make It Without Technical Skills by Coopahtroopa
Entering DAOs as a Writer by gnomeski
Becoming a Buidler on Ethereum by Austin Griffith
How to Play Twitter by visa
We have a few more on the wiki & a handful are work in progress on Notion,
but we need many more!
Want to write one? Through here!
What can I do?
We’re looking for more contributors to both of these projects!
You can either write your own playbook
Start building your own house
Suggest improvements to any of the existing ones
Take it away, gnomeski!
MetaGame Meta 👀
A Summery Summary
We are in full swing of holiday season! Many noble MetaGamers are out and about enjoying themselves and time off the screens, a great relaxation is underway as people prioritise other things above productivity. 😋
Which, given the capitalism-questioning leanings of MetaGame is a thing well worth doing! 😝 Here is a low down:
🎙️ MetaRadio
This week peth interviewed Dan13ram for the Humans of MetaGame series, eowulia edited the tracks & passed it on to karmaticacid for the post write-up. Find out about a curious acid inspired journey into web 3 from a caring, yogic, artistic, software developer, mathematician and traveler from Bangalore, who has found an ideological home at MetaGame and the DAO space in general! 🔥 🤯
Catch it here if you haven’t yet.
📣 Shillers
Anna has joined the ranks of MetaGame as a potential new Shillers Guild champion & immediately started making headway with some 🔥 tweets. The DAOSpace Persona Form created by Fearless Thompson can be found here. It is for collecting info for profiling mindsets of DAO folks and identifying things that can be addressed to improve targeting new folks as well as the retention of those already involved. So the more fill it in, the better. Please get involved.
🤑 Rainmakers
peth has been following up with the investors he met in Paris 2 weeks ago, keeping them posted on our fundraising plans as well as started gathering intel on all the other potential patrons to reach out to over the next month or two! ⚡ Much focus on MyMeta and Playbooks coming up to make this real.
🌉 Bridgebuilding
peth has been in touch with Raid Guild to strengthen our ties, which currently looks like a sponsorship of their cohort, sharing quests as well as a raid. Playbooks UI. ⚔️ Musashi13 has set up an AMA with Good Ghosting so we can learn about their fascinating gamified DeFi options. 👻
🍻 Innkeepers
With Tommy & Misanth taking some time to heal, Rankko and Musashi13 have both stepped up their innkeeping game & been very active of late. Now with luxumbra back from his break, you can be sure there won’t be a floor left unswept.
🎨 Artists
The MetaManifesto NFT art has been started by biuxmaster, you’ll soon be able to buy it to signal your alignment. There is also talk about using Guild Crests more in future so there is an opening for Artists to make cleaner versions than those provisionally made by Gnomeski.
🕵️♂️ Headhunters
Rankko.eth has also been headhunting over at Reddit for Typescript and Javascript Devs and we are already seeing some people turn up as a result. 💪 peth also posted a about open roles at MetaGame on Workable, feeding it out to other platforms.
Interested in helping with the Headhunting efforts? There’s a new call to action gathering all interested folks for the planning of the next attack 👀. Ask about it.
🛠️ Builders
We have a few new people interested in building; thelsdj, rook & natehubbit, who are getting familiar with the codebase. There has been more focus on Sourcecred as well as Guild Onboarding and the MegaMenu with PRs on their way for those things. Michiel has created a cheat sheet for HackMD. It is all bubbling away in the Cauldrons of IDX, Github and the alignment calls.
🧚♂️ XP Fairies
Minty goodness is occurring any day now with the next Seed distribution. The recent change in weights for general channels to 10% of their former weight has caused this months mint to be lower than usual/initially expected. This is expected to smooth out in future now as the community adjusts. Lower noise to signal coming up as a result!
Discussion is underway though about the implications for any peeps not earning XP via did-a-thing or give-props in Discord. Future weighting systems will no doubt be a hot topic as we find our balance. ⚖️
🧚♂️ Roadmapping
peth did a cleanup & updating of the Navigation Board followed by a productive Roadmapping session last Wednesday, walking through it, gathering feedback & making further improvements.
Discussions & further planning for each domain will happen in their own calls: Content & Shilling Strategy, Builders Align & Innkeepers Align.
🚨 Top Priorities:
Onwards! 🐙
Mondays:
Champions Ring @ 8am PST / 11pm EST / 3pm UTC / 5pm CET / 8:30pm IST
Headhunters Align @ 10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm CET / 10:30pm IST
Tuesdays:
Content and Shilling Strategy @ 8am PST / 11 am EST / 5 pm CET / 8:30pm IST
Wednesdays:
Builders Align @ 7am PST / 10am EST / 4pm CET / 7:30pm IST
Innkeepers Align @ 9am PST / 12pm EST / 6 pm CET / 9:30pm IST
Mid-week Storming, Feedback, AMA - open office, coworking @ 10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm CET / 10:30pm IST
Thursday:
Playbooks @ 9am PST / noon EST / 4pm UTC / 6pm CET / 9:30pm IST
Fridays:
Cohort Onboarding @ 8:15am PST / 11:15am EST / 5:15pm CET / 8:45pm IST
Community Gathering @ 9am PST / noon EST / 4pm UTC / 6pm CET / 9:30pm IST
Want to help MetaGame succeed?
🚨 Top Priorities:
Help builders with finishing MyMeta
Help with getting more Playbooks written