2024 Thoughts
✦ December
This kind of learning
Larry suggested that I should start writing about what both of us are doing, since we're both doing
Nicole Dieker Finley
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
The thing about doing good work
...is that you know when it is good.
And when the work is good, you don't spend a
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
November 2024
Scored "To a Fairy Godmother" for MELISANDE.
Completed two assignments for Bankrate and one for Vox.
Taught two
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
More thoughts on integrity, plus a few thoughts on The Grapes of Wrath
One of the reasons I find the Taking Children Seriously philosophy so compelling is this fundamental idea that no person
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
On books that change your life
"I really should have read Plato's Republic in college, like everyone else," I told Larry, the
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
Small changes change everything
I said I would tell you about one of the small changes I made to MELISANDE, so here you go
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
I want a space for people who are serious about making things
First of all, I have discovered that I can make minor edits in MELISANDE even as I do everything else
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
"no learning gets done over the holidays"
So first of all I should mention that I did watch My Old Ass, or at least the first twenty
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
Seriously, go watch "Hundreds of Beavers" and also read my lengthy analysis of why it matters
Hundreds of Beavers, a 2022 slapstick comedy film that was built on a $150,000 budget and successfully self-distributed to
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
Why am I writing this music specifically?
I had sort of forgotten that MELISANDE was meant to be a student theater piece.
Over the past few months
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
"why do we even write music anyway"
I'm going to see if I can come around to where my thoughts are taking me, starting with
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
Showing my work
I actually recorded this on Friday, but you get it today. ❤️
First is Bach Invention in C Major plus the
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
How to solve problems (how to learn)
If you want to solve a problem, it has to be your problem to solve.
This is almost a tautology.
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
October 2024
Scored "Like You" for MELISANDE.
Applied to the Illinois Creative Accelerator Fund to support MELISANDE.
Completed four assignments
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
I might as well fix RIDE THE CYCLONE while I'm at it
First of all, I did in fact memorize that Bach invention, I'll do another showing-my-work post this Friday,
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
Showing my work
It would be silly for me to be telling you any of this if I weren't able to