In S2E5 of The Human Layer, hosts Crystal and Taylor are joined by Mason Pashia who tells stories and runs media for Getting Smart, a learning innovation organization that covers the future o...

Fire as Practice: Building Human Operating Systems for Unstable TimesThe weather is getting strange. Instead of pretending otherwise, we step into the cremation ground and practice transmutation together.This conversation t...

What if the most important operating system isn’t digital at all, but human? We sit down with Louka Perry, a speaker, futurist, strategist, linguist, and creative ddventure...

In this conversation, Crystal and Taylor unpack the unsettling reality that American democracy isn’t dying— it’s already hollowed out and undead. Institutions still stand, rituals still occur, votes are still cast, but the animating sp...

Surrender isn’t giving up—it’s tuning in. We kick off Season Two with Pedro Senhorinha Silva, a pastor-poet-producer who lives at the crossroads of faith, technology, and creative mischie...