2025 Thoughts
✦ March
On thought leadership and what I like to think about before I fall asleep
It troubles me that so much of the still-independent internet has devolved into what might be considered thought leadership; I&
Thoughts
A reverse-chronological log of what might be important.
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
Federalist Paper #9
Since I accidentally skipped Federalist #9 (whoops), I might as well live-blog it for you.
FEDERALIST No. 9. The Union
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
Federalist Paper #10
This is the first of the Federalist Papers written by James Madison, and I knew that it was one of
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
I've written this song before
I began drafting Act II of MELISANDE this morning. I'll put the roughest draft of the first song
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
Writing out MELISANDE Act II
I changed the one part of the end-of-act number, otherwise known as "Tea Sequence (and Consequence)," that hadn&
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
The secret to learning 176 pages of music in five days
I finished the end-of-act number for MELISANDE, which is to say I drafted it to a point at which I
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Do you need a budget?
I've got a new feature up at Vox titled "What if a budget isn’t the answer?
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Brahms (just Brahms)
It's Friday, I'll have more to tell you about the MELISANDE end-of-act number soon, in the
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
The Beatitudes as they could be translated
First of all, yes I have stuck to my plan of extricating myself from the systemic internet (for lack of
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Writers with whom I've worked
I just got a lovely email from an author with whom I'd worked, a while ago, letting me
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Federalist Papers 7-8
If you weren't sure whether Hamilton was for-sure a genius, you will be after reading Federalist No. 8.
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
"deliberate attempts to understand, capture, and replicate information through observation and the application of tools"
I've started scoring the end-of-act number, and I've got this feeling like it's going
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Sonya isn't good
Still processing THREE HOUSES.
Studying OCTET, I bought the libretto, there is so much more to the piece than the
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Thoughts on Dave Malloy's THREE HOUSES
These thoughts are very very very unverified, since I haven't even listened to the entire piece twice through
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Progress
Who knows what to title this one, it's a progress update, here we go:
* Memorizing that Kabalevsky was
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Kabalevsky Variations in D Major
It's time to show more of my work. I put this piece together in the past four days