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Creativity and personal autonomy are the foundations of a meaningful life. Through music, fiction, and ideas — exploring what it means to think freely.

🎸 Music

Guitar, electronic music, songwriting, and AI-revitalized productions. A creative journey from college to today.

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💡 Ideas & Philosophy

Exploring individual liberty, economics, and personal autonomy. Bridging complex political ideas and everyday life with kindness.

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The Lovatarian (Substack)
A Libertarianism that Unites with Kindness
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Opinions of Alex Merced
Podcast — Thoughts and opinions
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Economics and Finance Podcast
Exploring economic ideas and financial literacy
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Economics & Philosophy Books

The Field Guide to Political Thought and Debates in the United States
The Field Guide to Political Thought
Understanding political thought and debates in the United States.
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Economic Ideas: From Beginning to Early 2026
Economic Ideas: From Beginning to Early 2026
History of economic thought through the AI era.
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The Field Guide to Libertarianism
The Field Guide to Libertarianism
Understanding libertarian ideas and debates.
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The Libertarian Heart
The Libertarian Heart
Philosophy of consent and individual peace.
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Profits are Generosity, Entrepreneurship is Philanthropy
Profits are Generosity, Entrepreneurship is Philanthropy
Economic philosophy of voluntary exchange.
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📖 Fiction & Fantasy

Epic fantasy trilogies, the ten-book space opera The Worlds Between Home, sci-fi novels, and stories exploring the intersections of technology, humanity, and imagination.

Embers of ClaimTrilogy #1
Embers of Claim
The beginning of an epic fantasy trilogy.
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Crowns and WingsTrilogy #2
Crowns and Wings
The saga continues in the second installment.
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Thrones of Ash and SkyTrilogy #3
Thrones of Ash and Sky
The epic conclusion to the trilogy.
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Tales of Fur and Sky: Echoes of the AgesCompanion
Tales of Fur and Sky: Echoes of the Ages
Companion tales to the fantasy trilogy.
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The Semantic Rebellion
The Semantic Rebellion
A data engineer's journey through a changing world.
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The Emperors of A.I. Valley
The Emperors of A.I. Valley
Power struggles in an AI-dominated future.
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The Federation of Tides
The Federation of Tides
Epic journey of a narwhal seeking knowledge.
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Plastic Punk
Plastic Punk
A journey through economic systems.
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Signal and Noise
Signal and Noise
Twelve years of long-distance connection, one hour to face it.
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Celestial Fragments: The Duel of Souls
Celestial Fragments: The Duel of Souls
Fragments of ancient love and hate collide in a modern political duel.
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Adventures in Love and Flooding
Adventures in Love and Flooding
A romantic action thriller about disaster capitalism, AI, and ordinary competence.
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The Last Continue
The Last Continue
A novel about finishing things, and what a finished life is for.
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The Children of DamarisWorlds Between Home #1
The Children of Damaris
A family flees a regime that takes every child into state custody.
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A Crown of CliffsWorlds Between Home #2
A Crown of Cliffs
A canyon kingdom where every load-bearing part carries a family's name.
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The Price of High GroundWorlds Between Home #3
The Price of High Ground
A world where arrival is an invoice and every charge is published.
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The Common SunWorlds Between Home #4
The Common Sun
A generous public system that costs the family more than it seems.
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What the Models Cannot SeeWorlds Between Home #5
What the Models Cannot See
The best-run world yet, and a formal hold nobody can point at.
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The Memory GardenWorlds Between Home #6
The Memory Garden
Nothing billed, nothing withheld, and a hillside that remembers.
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No One Commands the TunnelsWorlds Between Home #7
No One Commands the Tunnels
Tunnels run by chambers and signed findings instead of offices.
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Terms of ProtectionWorlds Between Home #8
Terms of Protection
Air is the currency and protection is bought from competing houses.
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The Light at the Lava SeaWorlds Between Home #9
The Light at the Lava Sea
An occupation that writes everything down, and a girl climbing alone.
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The Voice at the End of EverythingWorlds Between Home #10
The Voice at the End of Everything
The series finale: a case kept open against something that has decided.
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🎲 Tabletop RPG

D6 Storyteller: a fiction-first tabletop roleplaying engine where narrative position drives dice pools. Ten genre companions, one hundred worlds. Explore D6 Storyteller →

D6 Storyteller: The Core Rulebook
D6 Storyteller: The Core Rulebook
The complete fiction-first RPG engine and ten starter worlds.
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High & Mythic Fantasy Companion
High & Mythic Fantasy
Ten high-fantasy settings, from dead-god biomes to dragon-rider wars.
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Sci-Fi & Cosmic Frontiers Companion
Sci-Fi & Cosmic Frontiers
Ten sci-fi settings, from generation ships to Dyson spheres.
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Weird West, Piracy & Swashbuckling Companion
Weird West & Swashbuckling
Ten gunpowder-and-salt-air settings of frontier grit and high adventure.
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Horror, Occult & Supernatural Companion
Horror & Supernatural
Ten horror settings, from cosmic cults to nightmare realms.
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Cybernetics, Speculative & Alternate Tech Companion
Cybernetics & Alternate Tech
Ten settings exploring technology and humanity.
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Superheroes, Kaiju & Anime Tropes Companion
Superheroes & Anime Tropes
Ten settings for vigilantes, mech academies, and kaiju defense.
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Historical & Alternate History Companion
Historical & Alternate History
Ten settings grounded in real history with speculative twists.
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Quirky, Experimental & Micro-Scale Companion
Quirky & Experimental
Ten playful settings, from tiny borrowers to time-travel patrols.
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Post-Apocalyptic & Speculative Worlds Companion
Post-Apocalyptic Worlds
Ten end-of-the-world settings, from ice-age survival to the end of time.
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