MAKING WORLDS
TMN Universe
WHAT WE BUILD WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING
When I was a kid, I often found myself trying to build worlds that didn’t exist yet. I didn’t have the words for it back then — I just felt an instinct to shape things, connect ideas, and make sense of the space around me. It wasn’t really “playing.” It was something closer to understanding.
By Pablo Herrera, Founder of TMN®
As a teenager, that instinct shifted. Instead of objects, I became obsessed with people — how they speak, how they create, how music or films can suddenly unlock a part of you that you didn’t know was there. That curiosity stayed with me, even when the systems around me didn’t know what to do with it.
Because the truth is: the school system I grew up in wasn’t designed for someone like me.
Or for anyone who thinks differently, feels intensely, or imagines beyond the frame.
At some point I realized something simple but decisive:
If I wanted a space where creativity mattered, I would have to build it myself.
That’s where the real story of TMN® begins — not in a meeting room or a business plan, but in all those earlier versions of me: the kid building imaginary worlds, the teenager searching for meaning, the young adult refusing to shrink to fit a system that felt too small.
Today, TMN® is exactly what I always needed — a living universe.
A place where learning is active.
Where creativity is a path, not a risk.
Where young people create, collaborate, experiment, and grow with real freedom.
Every video, every article, every course, every idea — they’re not “content.”
They’re bricks.
Pieces of a future we’re shaping with intention and honesty.
And now we enter a week when the world pushes everyone to sell, buy, rush, compare.
Thanksgiving week. Black Friday week.
I don’t want to enter that noise from the same place.
Instead, I want to talk about possibility.
Supporting TMN® isn’t about purchasing something — it’s about choosing a vision.
It’s saying:
Yes, I believe in a world where young creators don’t wait for permission.
Yes, I believe we can build culture differently.
Yes, I believe education can feel alive.
So if you want to carry a small piece of this universe with you — this week the door is open.
Quietly. Sincerely.
Thank you for reading, for caring, and for building this with me.
What comes next is big.
And we’re just getting started.
Pablo Herrera, Founder of TMN®
Foundational sketch (2022). An early drawing of the TMN® ecosystem, outlining the first connections between creativity, education, and youth culture.
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