Auryn Macmillan is the co-founder of Gnosis Guild and a key member of the initial dev team for its first venture, Enclave. A self-taught engineer and mechanism designer, Auryn is dedicated to creating better tooling for collective ownership and decision-making. In 2021, he co-founded Gnosis Guild, creators of the Zodiac standard for composable DAO tooling, and founded quadratic funding protocol clr.fund. 

Auryn has an MSc in Psychology & Research Methods and previously played pro basketball.

Auryn Macmillan

Technical and design decisions should be viewed as means to achieving broader system qualities rather than ends in themselves. This talk reorients our focus on the underlying goals of these decisions, exploring why we build the way we do, what we aim to achieve, and whether there are better ways to reach comparable outcomes. Through examples and case studies, attendees will learn to critically evaluate their design choices and understand the broader implications of their technical strategies.