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Dr. Emily Eng Conducts the Blue Ridge Orchestra

Now It Belongs To You Too: Sharing Private Grief With Seventy Strangers

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 10:06 AM

When this started, I was alone. That's a tough thing to say when the catalyzing event was so profoundly public. The winds blew into every corner of my life in ways that I never thought possible. W...

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Dr. Emily Eng Conducts the Blue Ridge Orchestra

I built the symphony backwards.

Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:21 AM

It is hard to believe it has been nearly a year since the Blue Ridge Orchestra premiered my first major symphonic work, Sinfonietta Helene, a piece that was born from one of the hardest times my co...

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Conversations About Inspiration

Conversations About Inspiration

Friday, May 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM

Conversations About Inspiration The first of an occasional series of musings. Where do ideas come from? It's a simple question, and I've spent a lifetime not quite answering it. But it's the o...

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The Crisis Ratio. A mathematical warning, served cold.

I Built a Model of How the U.S. Fiscal System Could Break. Here Is What I Found.

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 6:42 PM

So. Hi. I wrote a working paper on U.S. fiscal sustainability and AI-driven labor displacement, and I am releasing it to the world. It is called the Crisis Ratio, it lives at crisisratio.com, and ...

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