2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Federalist Papers 1-6
So, okay, I made a few edits to my evaluation of Middlemarch yesterday, all of them based on my confusion
Thoughts
A reverse-chronological log of what might be important.
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
The end of Middlemarch (and the beginning of the Federalist Papers)
I finished up Middlemarch a few days ago. Here's what I want to remember about it:
[...] for the
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
I fixed the overture
So I thought to myself that I could wait until I finished writing and scoring Act II, maybe some of
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Exponential vs. expediential
So when I wrote, yesterday, that the best way to learn that you aren't half as brilliant as
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Assorted thoughts (mostly on intelligence)
I had some family stuff this weekend so I got a bit behind on everything else, am caught up now,
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
More thoughts on Middlemarch (also, why Ayn Rand is like keto)
I am up to Chapter LI in Middlemarch (that would be Chapter 51, although I will admit I had to
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Ravel and MELISANDE
It's time to show my work, so here we go:
This is the first movement of the Ravel
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
I was wrong about Atlas Shrugged
"I don't think I can finish reading Atlas Shrugged," Larry told me. "I got to
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Project management
"Enter the Princes" is finished, which means it's time to start bringing people over to the
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
I was wrong about The Grapes of Wrath
A while back I wrote a post in which I compared The Grapes of Wrath to Atlas Shrugged, noting that
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Blogs that have improved the way I think
I wrote last week that if you started your own blog (not a Substack, that's the metaphorical equivalent
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
More on teaching
So that piece of writing I put up yesterday, "To teach a child piano," is worth reading for
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
To teach a child piano
To teach a child piano is to teach them how to master their environment.
This, in turn, teaches them how
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Showing my work (and more thoughts on work in general)
The MELISANDE excerpt will be behind the paywall as usual, and if you are curious why I even have a
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
A bit about money, plus Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life
I have a new personal finance advice column in Vox today: I plan to retire in 2025. Am I financially
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Recalibrating
Larry is in the other room practicing a piano accompaniment that sounds just enough like the theme to The Young