Election anxiety has led to a small website cleanup today. To the ol’ blog I added a reply link that lets you pop open an email directly to me — emails I get from here are a pure delight and I want to encourage many more conversations like that. I also added a random link button to the bottom of a post. It’s partly...

The Idea My dad played classical guitar when I was growing up, so I never learned to play piano. I also never learned to play guitar, but it is the piano negligence I regret the most. In the following decades I have studied music theory and synthesis to obsessively analyze my favorite genre of music, but my lack of...