about
Hi, I’m Eddie Merkel
Lifelong Learner | Builder of Ideas | Seeker of Resonance
I’m a retired man with the restless energy of someone who’s anything but finished. I spend my days asking hard questions, building strange things, and trying to listen for the music beneath the noise.
Right now, I’m shaping something I call The Resonant Way—a personal philosophy grounded in music, metaphor, and the deep conviction that we live in a shared rhythm, even if we rarely hear it. It’s not a religion. It’s not a brand. It’s a slow unfolding, a path with rhythm, not rules.
Over the years, I’ve built:
Simulators to test blackjack strategies and card-counting systems
Writing projects: essays, stories, poems, and philosophical meditations
Systems of meaning that draw from Stoicism, Buddhism, birdsong, Voyager, and handwritten journals
I believe in structure, but I distrust dogma. I want clarity, not certainty.
I don’t want to be agreed with—I want to be challenged, sharpened, and surprised.
I’m married to Mireille, my partner in all things. I am trying to better my French to better speak to her family. I live simply, write daily, and wrestle with the mystery of what this all means.
If you’re on your own path—especially one without a map—maybe we’ll resonate.
Read on or not. That part’s up to you.
Me? I just want to share.
Why subscribe?
If you’re looking for certainty, this probably isn’t the place.
But if you’re drawn to questions that don’t have easy answers—
If you believe meaning is something we make, not something we’re handed—
If you’re curious, creative, skeptical, seeking—
You might feel at home here.
I write about rhythm, resonance, music, memory, systems that don’t quite fit, and paths that don’t yet have names. I build tools, test ideas, write stories, reflect on the world, and try to listen for whatever signal might be playing beneath the noise of it all.
This Substack is my signal.
Not to persuade. Not to perform.
But to connect. Quietly, honestly, and on purpose.
If that resonates—subscribe.
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