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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...

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When Money Flows, Builders Thrive

The Human Layer Episode 3 with Graven from Flow State In Episode 3 of The Human Layer, we are joined by guest Graven from FlowState and SuperFluid to explore the evolution of funding mechanisms in blockchain. Our conversation reveals how to move beyond traditional grant ecosystems towards streaming money, offering a paradigm shift from transactional to relational economics. In this episode, we get to explore a deeper understanding of the flow of money: how our funding structures don’t just sh...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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