The Human Layer
The Human Layer
Podcast Description
The Human Layer is a podcast for those who refuse to be optimized, for the builders and breakers at the intersection of emergent technology, political resistance, and the fight for a positive-sum future.
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The podcast emphasizes themes surrounding the human impact of blockchain technology, political resistance, and community development. Specific episodes explore topics such as the evolution of crypto from idealism to institutional adoption, the role of DAO structures in fostering community engagement, and real-world solutions like stablecoin projects in Africa that address economic challenges.
The Human Layer is a podcast for those who refuse to be optimized, for the builders and breakers at the intersection of emergent technology, political resistance, and the fight for a positive-sum future.
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 mischief. Together we explore what happens when high tech outpaces high touch, and how presence, practice, and play bring us back to the true signal.
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We unpack why The Human Layer exists: because crypto, AI, and social platforms move fast, but humans still breathe at human speed. Crystal traces roots in African developer networks and early encrypted tools; Taylor wrestles with identity across alt-selves, agents, and digital twins. Pedro reframes religion as a pointer, not a prison—love people, love the creator, love yourself—and if your belief system doesn’t deepen that, it’s noise on the sideband. His metaphor from satellite comms captures it: get on the real frequency and life “auto-tracks”; drift on the edges and you lose the connection.
From there the conversation turns embodied. Yoga and tantra become nervous system literacy for an age of acceleration. We look at synchronicity and manifestation without the woo fog, through concrete stories: a screenplay imagined on a plane that later collides with real-world encounters; a racist slur transformed into a joyful doo-wop track built with AI and his daughters, turning rage into responsibility. Comedy’s math—tragedy plus time—becomes a method for alchemy: accept, attune, create.
If you’re navigating AI’s rise, crypto’s promise and pitfalls, or the everyday mess of being many selves online and off, this talk offers tools and language to stay human. We land on practical next steps: Unify’s focus on human flourishing over polarization, Higher Up Consulting’s framework for using your boxes without living in them, and a call to build tech that honors privacy, autonomy, and embodiment.
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