2025 Thoughts
✦ January
The thing about creating an integrated work of art
I began scoring the "exponential growth" number for MELISANDE this morning. This will be a complicated piece because
Thoughts
A reverse-chronological log of what might be important.
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
"Nice is different than good"
If objectivism is the philosophy of reality, reason, integrity, and trade, and if this philosophy is in fact the best
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
Yes, there are children in Ayn Rand novels (but there should be one more)
I knew about the whole "there are no children in Ayn Rand novels" criticism long before I began
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
Wedding photos
If you want to see how Larry and I were married, the article and photos are up at Dwell:
My
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
The flaw in Ayn Rand
I have been taught that systems are either inconsistent or incomplete – which could imply that objectivism, as a closed system,
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
It has been six months since our wedding
Larry and I were married on June 23, 2024. We had said, before we were legally wed, that we had
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
I figured out the flaw in Taking Children Seriously
First of all, I finished scoring the "I Want" song for MELISANDE this morning. I am thrilled both
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
Showing more work
I am very likely to get the "I Want" number for MELISANDE scored by the end of the
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
Showing my work
I'm both a pianist and an organist, which means I've played a lot of Christmas Eve
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
Atlas Shrugged and The Grapes of Wrath are (almost) the same book
There's this comment on Reddit that I'm not going to look up again, but it implies
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
"I Want"
I started scoring the "I Want" song this week. Originally I had meant it as a fairly straightforward
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
I am not responsible for other people's systems
If you haven't visited NicoleDiekerFinley.com recently, you may want to check out the revamp. ❤️
Back when I
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
Philosophy as a form of systems thinking, plus a few thoughts about AI
I only recently learned that philosophy was a form of systems thinking, and that to be a philosopher meant to
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
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
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