A PlayBook is a quick guide on how to do, or understand, a specific thing. 👈🏾

These are being written in a context of OnBoarding/Levelling up in relation to Web3 (DAOs and Crypto inclusive of course).

These spaces can be dizzyingly confusing and representing a massive ‘Warren’ (network of rabbit tunnels) of digital ‘Rabbit Holes’.. 🐇

The term Rabbit-holes is used after the story Alice in Wonderland. With Playbooks a few ways of looking at why you are writing them, that may help are..

• You are introducing someone to one opening into the Warren. You are showing them how to begin venturing into there, encouraging them, helping them look inside (by teaching them something useful about it) and get a feel if they want to go deeper.
• You are providing a useful quick map of a route that they can follow to achieve a specific thing.

So what characteristics a PlayBook in this context? 🤔

• Is framed with regard to relevance, specific to Web3 spaces.
• Using a direct and minimalist approach (still can ideally be fun, friendly, enjoyable language).
• Aims to be as quick a read as possible, while levelling up a newcomer or acting as an on-going reference for anyone.
• Images, charts, tables, diagrams can be used as long as they are simple to understand and serve to aid understanding more efficiently than words alone could.
• Minimal links should be used. Any links that are used should be ‘non essential’ wherever possible and presented as such (inside brackets) or stated openly.. Why? Because the aim is a fast A to B upgrade for the reader. In this age of information overload and in such a confusing space everyone is prone to distraction and meandering. Aim to keep your readers on the page till the end, which comes directly and with a satisfying sense of closure..

💡 A good idea can be to have a Further Reading bit at the end followed by your links. That way, your work is done and now the invitation to go further is presented. Be mindful also, that as links break, things get moved etc, the more links, the more ongoing management will be required...

Starting a piece is often half the battle. So, where to start? 🖊️

• Think about what you already know, have experience and/or skills in; that you can see a relevance for relating to DAO/Web3/Crypto spaces…. 🧠
• So, while you may be amazing at arranging flowers or amateur mechanics for example, there are many pages of links to articles about this all over the internet already. We are not wanting to pay XP to people to hear about things that do not have a specific relevance after all! So, Relevance is Important! We are not recreating the internet with these PlayBooks.. 🎯
• That said, there are many dimensions to online communities and the real life factors that effect them, so this should allow for a good scope to draw from.. 👍