CD

I've been building things people told me weren't viable since 2000. I left a corporate job in Seattle, moved into a VW bus, and started writing down what I found on the other side of the decision. I haven't stopped. This Patreon isn't a tip jar, and it's not a paywall. It's a sustained creative partnership with the people who want to be close to the work while it's being made. What you're supporting: Twenty-six books written over 25 years. Most of them novels. Most of them exploring the edges of what's possible — dystopia, utopia, mysticism, the places where fiction tells more truth than journalism. A philosophy called Baoism that I invented because the alternative was watching algorithms eat the place where meaning used to live. A social network called Xcrol that I'm building because the existing ones were designed to make you feel worse. Royal Road serials that drop new chapters every two days. This is the full stack of what I'm making. Patrons get closer to it. The tiers: Campfire — $5/month Access to process: draft previews, Royal Road chapter early access, behind-the-scenes notes on what I'm building and why. The campfire is where you pull up a chair and hear what's actually going on. Inner Circle — $10/month Deeper access: unedited excerpts, early Baoism essays before they're published anywhere, draft chapters before they hit Royal Road. If you want to read the rough version before it's polished, this is where you come. Builders — $25/month You're part of the infrastructure. Builders get updates on the full system — W3WU, Xcrol, the KDP pipeline, what's next. If you want to understand how the whole thing fits together, this tier is for you. Benefactors — $100/month Direct access. Questions answered. Input on creative decisions. I read every message from Benefactors and respond. This is the closest thing to a working relationship I offer outside of consulting. I don't have a course to sell you. I don't have a transformation promise. I have 25 years of figuring it out in public, and a pile of books that prove the thinking was real. If that's worth something to you, pull up a chair. Patrons support my ongoing writing, world-building, digital experiments, and field notes from a life lived deliberately. I’m CD Damitio—writer, traveler, builder, and chronicler of worlds. Through books, essays, experiments, and long roads walked far from comfort, I’ve documented what it means to live consciously, creatively, and defiantly human in an age that prefers automation over soul.