I get interested in questions that look simple until you pull on them. Then I follow the thread until it becomes a book, a useful tool, or occasionally a game.
Writing appears under my real name. Games, when I make them, go out under Marisombra.
Relocating is really two different problems. LiveCompass asks where you can realistically live, based on legal routes and your priorities. Once a destination is viable, PisoLive zooms all the way in to what everyday life around a real place would actually look like.
Both started with something ordinary enough to overlook: who gets to define a relationship, and what a line on a map is allowed to do. Pull gently. Entire systems come attached.
Who gets to say what a relationship means, whether it counts, and what follows from that judgment? A warm, research-grounded look at how authority gets divided among the people living a relationship and the outsiders with power over it.
Sometimes several people can be right about different parts of the same situation.
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A line can be invisible on the ground and still decide your school, your insurance, your transplant priority, what can be built next door, or which side of a rule you wake up on. This book follows the moment mapped categories become lived reality.
The address is singular. The institutional geographies are plural.
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Match the target sum before the game decides you’ve had enough chances. Three strikes, increasingly unhelpful pressure, and a Zen mode for anyone who would rather do arithmetic without being emotionally heckled.
Play it FREE →I write books and build tools around questions that change how ordinary life looks once you notice them.
The subjects wander, but the habit is consistent: start with a real human problem, research it seriously, make the underlying system understandable, and turn the result into something people can actually use or enjoy. Writing appears under my own name. Games go out under Marisombra.