The Human Layer

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.

The Human Layer is a technology podcast hosted by cstreet, with 14 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

cstreet hosts The Human Layer, a technology show with 14 episodes published.

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  Episode #7

  Embracing AI Without Losing Your Mind

  May 6, 20261h 6mS2

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In this episode of <b>The Human Layer</b>, Crystal and Taylor sit down at the Regen Hub in Boulder with Neil, a sign-painter-turned-creative-director, and Jon, a software engineer ten years deep in startup work. What unfolds is less a conversation about AI than a live demonstration of four different operating systems negotiating coherence in real time each with their own relationship to flow, identity, and the particular vertigo of mid-2026.</p><p>The conversation moves through the question of whether AI flow is the same as painting flow or photography flow (it...

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  Labor, Shadow Unions & Weaponizing AI for Good

  Apr 11, 20262 hourS0

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Crystal riffs with dear friend <b>Monera</b> about shadow unions, whisper networks, and what actually happens when brand values collide with frontline reality inside a metrics-obsessed workplace. Together they map practical ways to protect your nervous system, document toxic leadership, and use AI to push back — without becoming the next target.</p>Choosing the "worst job ever" as a deliberate leadership labCommand-and-control restaurant managers colliding with algorithmic metrics they don't understandWhy untrained leaders transfer emotional labor downward — and how supremacy culture makes accountability feel like identity deathSomatic leadership at the frontline: praising bath...

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  Episode #5

  Story As Infrastructure

  Mar 21, 20261h 4mS2

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>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 of education with a commitment to the idea that the system can and must change.</p><p>We explore why storytelling shapes what education values and how learners can reclaim agency by curating the narratives of their lives. We trace how myths, scarcity thinking, and tech hype distort school and how attention, lineage, and grief work can guide more regenerative...

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  Episode #4

  OS Upgrades & Archetypes

  Jan 19, 202656 minS2

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p><b>Fire as Practice: Building Human Operating Systems for Unstable Times</b></p><p>The weather is getting strange. Instead of pretending otherwise, we step into the cremation ground and practice transmutation together.</p><p>This conversation tracks how <b>we're debugging our "human OS" for 2026—not as self-help, but as actual survival infrastructure.</b> We're building executable commands that work under pressure, treating collapse as composting material rather than catastrophe to bypass.</p><p>We start with fire as both terror and teacher. What survives the burn isn't what performs resilience—it's what...

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  Episode #3

  Rituals of Relearning

  Dec 1, 20251h 7mS2

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>What if the most important operating system isn’t digital at all, but human? </p><p>We sit down with Louka Perry, a speaker, futurist, strategist, linguist, and creative ddventurer who works globally with education systems, teachers, and leaders. Currently learning his fifth language (Mandarin Chinese), Louka brings both philosophical depth and practical wisdom to questions about learning, identity, and human agency in the age of AI.</p><p>In this conversation—what Taylor calls "a palate cleanser" after their previous exploration of zombie democracy—Louka immediately reframes the question of what he does to...

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