April 16, 2025

We’re Not a Podcast

We’re not a podcast. We never really were.The Human Layer began with microphones, yes. But what we’re doing now—what’s moving through us—is something else entirely.This is a co-creative ritual with code. A field experiment in collaborative intelligence. A myth engine for a world cracking open.We’re weaving stories with machines.Not for productivity. Not for clickbait. Not for automation.But for resonance. For remembrance. For relief.This isn’t content. It’s a container.We’ve spent two years t...

April 12, 2025

Holding Space in Chaos

Your trauma does not justify your abuse.Community building in decentralized communities is hands down some of the hardest work I’ve ever done. Doing it during times of accelerated societal transition is next level. If your community is open, diverse, driven by impact and woven together through decentralized networking and sovereign intentions, you must build the container to hold these humans with strategic care, unbiased compassion and fierce protection. Your leaders must have strongly culti...

April 3, 2025

We Have A Choice

Building community in an industry currently battling the very forces it originally meant to upend is beyond challenging. It's a labor of love and a perpetual source of trauma. In order to build a resilient community, one must embrace the core tenants of resiliency themselves and bake them into the architecture of the community from its inception. Kindness. Equity. Compassion. Strength. Collaboration. Empathy. All necessary ingredients for building a safe container for people to gather and bui...

March 18, 2025

Building Through Collapse

Cold hard truth right here-- we are all currently swimming through an accelerated period of collapse and fighting not to drown. The systems we've all relied upon, at least here in the West, for the decades that we've existed on this planet are now undergoing a period of collapse at the hands of billionaires. A handful of oligarchs, broligarchs and a failed businessman cosplaying as President are destroying the systems that have enabled this great American experiment called Democracy for sever...

July 21, 2024

Impact Happens in the Shadows

"May you live in interesting times."To say we live in interesting times would be a gross understatement. We live in absolutely batshit crazy times. W...

May 28, 2024

Resilient Community Building for Human-First Developer Relations

Here is a comical, yet powerful breakdown of how two Conscious Leaders & community professionals approach creating, growing and nurturing impactful d...

May 4, 2024

Crossing Liminal Thresholds

Nothing humbles the ego faster than going to physical therapy in a small mountain town in the West multiple times a week. The layers of humanity to a...

April 18, 2024

The Narratives That Divide Us

Communications. Communication rests at the heart of everything. How we communicate our truth to the world is how the world interprets us and how we a...

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April 2, 2024

Refugees of Capitalism

Refugees of late stage capitalism are finding their way to the world of blockchain— a frontier where you can basically choose your own adventure in t...

March 14, 2024

Bliss Versus Happiness

How often do we explore the differences between “happiness” and “bliss”? In our culture, we often focus on happiness and our moods, energies and acti...