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"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

13 Feb

I fixed the overture

So I thought to myself that I could wait until I finished writing and scoring Act II, maybe some of

02 Feb

Exponential vs. expediential

So when I wrote, yesterday, that the best way to learn that you aren't half as brilliant as

01 Feb

Ravel and MELISANDE

It's time to show my work, so here we go: This is the first movement of the Ravel

23 Jan

Project management

"Enter the Princes" is finished, which means it's time to start bringing people over to the

21 Jan

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

14 Jan

Games and wagers

"Exponential" is scored, which means that I am very likely to both start and finish "Enter the

08 Jan

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

19 Feb

I was wrong about Atlas Shrugged

"I don't think I can finish reading Atlas Shrugged," Larry told me. "I got to

22 Jan

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

18 Jan

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

13 Jan

Games and wagers

"Exponential" is scored, which means that I am very likely to both start and finish "Enter the

08 Jan

How does this book exist

I am, unbelievably, almost finished scoring the exponential growth number for MELISANDE. Tomorrow I'm going to do the

07 Jan

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

06 Jan

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

09 Jan

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

22 Dec

Showing my work

I'm both a pianist and an organist, which means I've played a lot of Christmas Eve

19 Dec

This kind of learning

Larry suggested that I should start writing about what both of us are doing, since we're both doing

05 Dec

"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

15 Nov

"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

05 Nov

Showing my work

I actually recorded this on Friday, but you get it today. ❤️ First is Bach Invention in C Major plus the

02 Nov

Sonya isn't good

Still processing THREE HOUSES. Studying OCTET, I bought the libretto, there is so much more to the piece than the

12 Feb

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

11 Feb

Progress

Who knows what to title this one, it's a progress update, here we go: * Memorizing that Kabalevsky was

10 Feb

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,

30 Jan

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

17 Jan

More on teaching

So that piece of writing I put up yesterday, "To teach a child piano," is worth reading for

16 Jan

Recalibrating

Larry is in the other room practicing a piano accompaniment that sounds just enough like the theme to The Young

10 Jan

Federalist Papers 1-6

So, okay, I made a few edits to my evaluation of Middlemarch yesterday, all of them based on my confusion

05 Feb

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

04 Feb

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,

30 Jan

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

24 Jan

Games and wagers

"Exponential" is scored, which means that I am very likely to both start and finish "Enter the

08 Jan

How does this book exist

I am, unbelievably, almost finished scoring the exponential growth number for MELISANDE. Tomorrow I'm going to do the

07 Jan

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

06 Jan