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
Thoughts
A reverse-chronological log of what might be important.
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
2025 Thoughts
✦ 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
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
More Middlemarch, more MELISANDE
I am testing out several different ways of accompanying the exponential growth number for MELISANDE, by which I mean I&
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Middlemarch and MELISANDE
(It's a little hard to tell because Ghost blurs the words before the paywall, but I recorded and
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
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
The thing about creating an integrated work of art
I began scoring the "exponential growth" number for MELISANDE this morning. This will be a complicated piece because
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
Wedding photos
If you want to see how Larry and I were married, the article and photos are up at Dwell:
My
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
It has been six months since our wedding
Larry and I were married on June 23, 2024. We had said, before we were legally wed, that we had