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
Cognition
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Games and wagers
"Exponential" is scored, which means that I am very likely to both start and finish "Enter the
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
How does this book exist
I am, unbelievably, almost finished scoring the exponential growth number for MELISANDE. Tomorrow I'm going to do the
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Avoid all that which would ask you not to think
It only took me four iterations before I was able to start building the accompaniment for MELISANDE's big
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
The math either works or it doesn't
I wrote out the vocal lines for the exponential growth song this morning and began putting in some chords for
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
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
Showing more work
I am very likely to get the "I Want" number for MELISANDE scored by the end of the
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 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
✦ 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
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
Bach (still Bach) and Henle
I don't even know how to tell you that it seems like if you are going to learn