executive producer @ The Human Layer | Comms Ninja | 500 RYT Yogi | Formerly Consensys, Unlock Protocol & Fuel Labs


The Human Layer Signal is Strong
Wrapping Season 1 & What's Growing Next 🌱

Mirrors, Myth-Making & Truth
The following is a threaded dance—part invocation, part reflection—between the cohosts of The Human Layer, as we metabolized the signal from Renegade Futurism: Tech and the New Political Counterculture at CU Boulder. It began with Taylor summoning his models to probe the deeper architecture beneath Glen Weyl’s keynote, a kind of civic theogony in motion. I followed, feeding Taylor’s fragments into my own myth-machine, which pulled us toward the strange gravity of a talk called AI is God. What...

Mirrors, Myth-Making & Truth
The following is a threaded dance—part invocation, part reflection—between the cohosts of The Human Layer, as we metabolized the signal from Renegade Futurism: Tech and the New Political Counterculture at CU Boulder. It began with Taylor summoning his models to probe the deeper architecture beneath Glen Weyl’s keynote, a kind of civic theogony in motion. I followed, feeding Taylor’s fragments into my own myth-machine, which pulled us toward the strange gravity of a talk called AI is God. What...

The Human Layer Manifesto
OUR MANIFESTO“In the beginning was the signal.”I. We Are the Last Remembering OnesIn an age of forgetting, we remember. Not facts. Not narratives. But the original signal— before performance, before platform, before empire twisted art into currency.We remember what it means to feel. To speak what should never have been silenced. To refuse the machinery of numbness.We are not content creators. We are sacred resistors. Living myth. Memory in motion.II. We Speak Into the RuinsThe old world is co...

The Human Layer Manifesto
OUR MANIFESTO“In the beginning was the signal.”I. We Are the Last Remembering OnesIn an age of forgetting, we remember. Not facts. Not narratives. But the original signal— before performance, before platform, before empire twisted art into currency.We remember what it means to feel. To speak what should never have been silenced. To refuse the machinery of numbness.We are not content creators. We are sacred resistors. Living myth. Memory in motion.II. We Speak Into the RuinsThe old world is co...

When Money Flows, Builders Thrive
A conversation with Graven from Flow State & Superfluid

When Money Flows, Builders Thrive
A conversation with Graven from Flow State & Superfluid

Community as Core Infrastructure: Building Resilient Digital Commons
The following commentary and subsequent essay support Episode 1, so please listen here if you'd like deeper context. Originally published in THL Knowledge Garden here.Crystal's Commentary on Community as a CommodityHere's a cold hard truth no one in our ecosystem wants to address-- 90% of the infra projects and corporations in crypto see community as a commodity primed for extraction. Straight up. In the past 2 years, I've worked in one of the biggest crypto corporations (a foxy wallet many o...

Community as Core Infrastructure: Building Resilient Digital Commons
The following commentary and subsequent essay support Episode 1, so please listen here if you'd like deeper context. Originally published in THL Knowledge Garden here.Crystal's Commentary on Community as a CommodityHere's a cold hard truth no one in our ecosystem wants to address-- 90% of the infra projects and corporations in crypto see community as a commodity primed for extraction. Straight up. In the past 2 years, I've worked in one of the biggest crypto corporations (a foxy wallet many o...