Cybernetic Org Design is a field guide for treating DAOs as digitally native firms, automated institutions, and programmable coordination engines. From 2020 to 2024, DAOs captured the imagination of builders who believed programmable organizations could rewrite human coordination. The hype has cooled, but the ideas and lessons deserve to be preserved. This book is a refined compendium of Justice Conder’s DAO writings from that era, updated with the clarity of hindsight. Coming from an Agile and DevOps background, Conder saw DAOs through the lens of IT infrastructure: organizations you design like software. The book challenges the community-first, democratic gospel that dominated early DAO discourse and reframes DAOs as organizations-as-code that inherit the rigor of token engineering; as economically sustainable, protocol-first systems, and as structures that minimize governance overhead by defaulting to automation and incentive design. Written for the next generation of builders who will revisit these ideas with better tools and discipline, Cybernetic Org Design is a practical companion for anyone who wants to build digitally-native and programmable organizations.