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1# Governance
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3Governance is a tool an [[Organizations|organization]] uses to decide where power should reside and who gets to click on what button. This process places rails around operations, which helps an organization get from point A to point B more smoothly.
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5- There is an idea that governance — public or corporate — [is driven by the self-interested effort of leaders to acquire and keep their power](https://fs.blog/the-dictators-handbook/).
6- [Governance means conflict](https://twitter.com/armaniferrante/status/1450878886535839745). It also means resolution. Accept the former, focus on the latter, via transparency.
7- [There is still much room to try different things around Governance](https://www.cold-takes.com/ideal-governance-for-companies-countries-and-more/).
8- A multi-level liquid democracy where every voter chooses a delegate, and 50-200 delegates can empower second-level delegates, [biases for sophistication](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/17/societies.html) (because each level ends up more sophisticated than the previous) and guards against populism (because a delegate can't amass extreme power by gaining a huge following directly) while avoiding empowering pre-selected aristocracies.
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10## Resources
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12- [Democratic Mediums](https://medlabboulder.gitlab.io/democraticmediums/). A directory of patterns for decision, deliberation, and noise.
13- [Metagovernance Project](https://metagov.org/). An interdisciplinary research collective that builds standards and infrastructure for digital self-governance.
14- [CommunityRule](https://communityrule.info/). A governance toolkit for great communities.
15- [Verses](https://verses.xyz/).
16- [[Decentralized Autonomous Organizations]]
17- [Common Digital Infrastructure](https://andrewconner.com/common-digital-infrastructure/)