“In the wake of the SushiSwap leadership crisis and my own place in the corporate financial world, I started thinking more and more about the actual structure of governance. There are a wealth of self-help and philosophical texts on the more abstract idea of what being a leader means -- go read the Art of War, Kill Six Billion Demons, the Prince, whatever. I have always been drawn to these scholarly writing on the nature of leadership and governance. Invariably when power coalesces – be it in the state, in business, in war – there will be those who comment on it and attempt to codify and analyze the concept of “leadership” itself -- and while those are excellent for a view of the individual as leader, it was more interesting for me to consider governance. Governance, in my estimation, is byword for prudent, ethical leadership that aspires to, at the end of the day, do more right things than wrong things, while maximizing the benefits of one’s own state/organization/unit. I wondered at how we might iterate on our notions of governance in the new world of DAOs, particularly given the failures of both the traditional systems and this newest one. As always, I try to seek the middle path in all things.”