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...
Musings
Composed. Improvised. Alive. - Music without Borders - From Asheville to Everywhere.
Now It Belongs To You Too: Sharing Private Grief With Seventy Strangers
Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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...
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...
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 ...