The Human Layer began with microphones, yes. But what we’re doing now—what’s moving through us—is something else entirely.

Building Through Collapse is a call to action from cstreet & tayken as we embark upon a necessary exploration of the humanity of our emergent technology.

The past 9 days have felt like a year. A decade. A century. Complete chaos is the game we are playing, and there’s no end in sight. We simply must keep moving forward through the Unknown shadows of authoritarianism in America’s latest chapter.

Buckleup Buttercups.

Language matters.

Mission-driven community builders are here to make change at scale by supporting humans who gather to further a collective mission. We can not do that if we, ourselves are broken.

How do you lead through chaos?

Rarely in this life are we able to do professional work that has direct impact on our communities, on the core technical infrastructure of the internet and also on the direction of our future financial instruments. Even more rare…to do such powerful work with a group of humans who are essentially family.

Chaos. We are all dealing with some level of perpetual and unpredictable chaos— in our societal, personal and professional lives. For those of us working in emerging technological fields that are pushing the regulatory and monetary boundaries on policies that society has lived by for centuries, the chaos has multiple layers we can not predict or strategize our ways out of.