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
Or destroys them...choose wisely.
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
In emergent technology, we look at layers and protocols to understand just about everything. We use these substrates to put technological frameworks in place to understand the world we’re being forced to navigate right now. We also use this language to talk conceptually about the squishy things that technologists
The Practitioner I'm Crystal Street — co-creator of the CommsOS methodology with Taylor Kendal and its first practitioner. What I bring to a build is 25+ years of communications pattern recognition across photojournalism, blockchain ecosystems, explainable AI, and nonprofit impact work — combined with daily AI collaboration since 2023.