At this point, you’re familiar with the mission and values of WBC, and eager to immerse yourself in the nitty-gritty of your desired section(s). Perfect! Let’s now take a look at how WBC does what it does.
We call a monthly unit of some kind of work a Flow. For each section (DeSci/Fi/Gov) all Flows are approximately the same in format, revolving around some kind of research and reformulation. We also include a ‘wildcard’ style flow, which we will touch on later. Within a section, you also have the freedom to elect your own Flow or to use a standardized Flow.
Core WBC workflows are meant to be flexible enough to accommodate varied expertise and preference, but rigid enough to remain a consistent form of contribution for members. These flows are defined by three stages, which have a variety of expressions, are described below:
These topics usually are projects or concepts being developed through the lens of one of our sections, or broadly. This includes projects, protocols, ecosystems, and even the people involved (ie. Uniswap, Ocean Protocol, Cosmos, and their respective designers, engineers, and core team members).
After deciding on a topic, area, or person, you will look into primary and secondary sources concerning that topic (two or more of each), and move on to stage 3.
This is the stage of reformulation and creation of media. At this point, the researcher will reformulate and summarize the content that they obtained. Be it an interview, a deep dive, or somewhere in between, this writeup should succinctly (meaning in between 500–750 words) answer the question, summarize relevant information, and cite any and all sources used.
(If choosing to do a self-elected project or Interview as a flow, please refer to this Notion page for guidelines)
While the club creates this collective knowledge base, we will be uploading these pieces on Medium, and disseminating them on Twitter and LinkedIn. Once a “Flow” is completed, the individual can make their own Twitter thread summary (under 10 posts — 2800 characters) to be posted on the WBC Twitter account — the individual retaining full credit of course!
If you are interested in something outside of the bounds of this workflow, we also have our ‘wildcard’ flow option, a running series called “WBC Shower Thoughts” (link to our first) where we discuss the blockchain in the abstract, leaving room for tongue-in-cheek quips and philosophical pondering that can go in any direction! See more about the technical details of this flow on our Notion here.
Now, as for electing your own workflow, these are projects that either have longer timespans, more depth or refinement to their research, or something with a tangible end product. In any event, all that is required is for you to fill out our proposal form linked on Notion, and have the proposal accepted by the head of that section.
These “Flows” testify to your knowledge and comfort with various topics, and more often than not interested parties and teams reach out to students that have this ground-floor understanding of the cutting edge — many opportunities await!