Here I am on the plane on the way home from Inkhaven. Huge thanks to Ben Pace and the other organizers for inviting me. Lighthaven is a delightful venue and there sure are some brilliant writers taking part in this — both contributing writers and participants. With 40 posts published per day by participants (not counting those by organizers and contributing writers) it feels impossible to highlight samples of them. Fortunately that's been done for me: the Inkhaven spotlight. And just to semi-randomly pick a single post to highlight, for making me laugh out loud, I'll link to one by Rob Miles. There are also myriad poignant, insightful, informative, and otherwise delightful posts. And, sure, plenty that don't quite work yet. But that's the point: force yourself to keep publishing, ready or not, and trust that quality will follow.

Confession: I'm not at all happy with this post. Opening with "here I am on the plane"? Painful. I would've fixed that in an editing pass, but I'm going to leave it because it illustrates two Inkhaven lessons for me. First, that sometimes it's ok to hit publish before something is perfect. And second, that I in particular need to [...]

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First published:

November 24th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9ZX2MMMc4oEYSNnk3/inkhaven-retrospective

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.