Yesterday was just a Wednesday. Nothing special, nothing abnormal. Just a hump day, 48 hours after my first PT session in 5 weeks. I woke up feeling mostly my self. Some soreness and aches in the regular places my body stores and deploys the pain signals to remind me that
As I barrel through another year on this wild ass planet, I have to look back at the past year(s) and then look forward to the path I'm traveling down. And at my age, at the just-past-midway point towards a century, I hold a large
Here's an excerpt from my creative writing project (AI free zone), A Somatic Unraveling: Field Notes From the Cremation Grounds. Where's my floor? Yesterday was my last session for round 2 of PT (June 18, 2026). And well, the whole thing feels devastating. As if someone
When your health goes sideways, you learn about yourself, the life you’ve built and the altering of your future vision– fast. And when things turn chronic, derail on the fly and a malfunctioning body becomes your new “normal”, well everything changes. Some changes are direct and dramatic, others are
Yesterday was just a Wednesday. Nothing special, nothing abnormal. Just a hump day, 48 hours after my first PT session in 5 weeks. I woke up feeling mostly my self. Some soreness and aches in the regular places my body stores and deploys the pain signals to remind me that
My current somatic journey is disrupting most aspects of my life at this moment. One massive disruption for this word nerd is kind of obvious given that my entire world revolves around communicating narratives. Language is now both a barrier and a trigger. I lack access to adequate language for
As I barrel through another year on this wild ass planet, I have to look back at the past year(s) and then look forward to the path I'm traveling down. And at my age, at the just-past-midway point towards a century, I hold a large
Here's an excerpt from my creative writing project (AI free zone), A Somatic Unraveling: Field Notes From the Cremation Grounds. Where's my floor? Yesterday was my last session for round 2 of PT (June 18, 2026). And well, the whole thing feels devastating. As if someone
When your health goes sideways, you learn about yourself, the life you’ve built and the altering of your future vision– fast. And when things turn chronic, derail on the fly and a malfunctioning body becomes your new “normal”, well everything changes. Some changes are direct and dramatic, others are
The price of our subconscious submission to systems of control is our identity and the payment is past due. Here’s a cold hard reality of where we stand as a collective. AI is forcing many things right now and the violence against human labor and the ensuing economic destruction
The cry against the machine is not a cry to preserve the past or avoid the advancement of our civilization. The cry is one of anguish at all that we have lost and what faces decimation at the hands of an economic system never meant to preserve what makes living
A conversation keeps finding me– with friends, colleagues, neighbors and strangers– and when that happens, I know a societal trend has moved beyond media talking points and into reality. I track many issues across what’s left of the “viable” media landscape and the destabilization of AI across multiple demographics
In Episode 3 of The Human Layer, hosts Crystal and Taylor are joined by guest Graven from FlowState and SuperFluidDAO delegate to explore the evolution of funding mechanisms in blockchain. Their dialectical exchange reveals how to move beyond traditional grant ecosystems towards streaming money, offering a paradigm shift from transactional
The conversation The container The garden Hope isn't just an abstract concept – it's the fuel propelling blockchain innovation across Africa. In this candid conversation with Eric and Michael from Aya, we explore how they're building something extraordinary: the human layer of blockchain technology. While
The podcast | We start with a couple mics & a few seeds The container | We hold space for emergence The garden | We compost thoughts & co-create myths to fertilize the seeds in our garden The Integrity Vacuum: Building Infrastructure That Survives Collapse As we stand at this intersection of
My decade working as a comms and community professional in emergent technologies-- decentralized tech and now artificial intelligence-- has been an exhilarating and terrifying ride. Dramatic understatement. I don’t need to recount the nastiness of working in tech, that trauma is all over this website. Hell, it’s one