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✦ January
Is Beast Games the final form of philanthropy?
Last night Larry and I went through all of the existing music for MELISANDE and talked about what worked and
Education
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 my work
I'm both a pianist and an organist, which means I've played a lot of Christmas Eve
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
✦ 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
"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
✦ October
Showing my work
It would be silly for me to be telling you any of this if I weren't able to
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
Bach (again) and Plato
"Two things," I told Larry, last night.
(You have figured out that we tend to think in lists,
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✦ October
I want to be a functional pianist (and other things I want)
If you read this post all the way through I am going to both a) solve for education and b)
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✦ October
It's all the same thing, though
So I ended yesterday's post with "every time you interact with a Quality teacher, it 1) teaches
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
Gödel, Escher, Bach, and Handel
The King's song is kinging along, I love when you go in after you've written something
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
The informational quality of food
The deal is that I can't finish the King's song until I take some time to
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
In which I develop a functional definition of "quality"
So yesterday I did this post in which I argle bargled for 1,287 words on problems I was not
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
Giving children purchasing power could rightsize college debt
I mean, maybe it couldn't, but it's an idea I'm thinking about so I
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
Starting conditions
It seems as if one should not begin by announcing a project, in the sense that whenever a person announces