If you don't know, Inkhaven is a residency where you come and publish a blogpost every day. No "Oh it would be nice to blog some day" or "Oh I'm working on something, I'm sure I'll publish it some day". No, you have to publish today, otherwise you are asked to leave.

After 10 days into the first ever Inkhaven cohort, here are some things I've learned.

1. Everyone publishes.

I have 41 people here writing, most of them living at Lighthaven, all of them visiting at least a few days per week. In recent weeks, I knew I was hurtling toward their arrival and I'd be in the thick of it; while I believed this abstractly, I didn't know what to concretely visualize.

Any time that anyone has said to me that they want to push down the publishing requirement, maybe to every 2 or 3 days, I have said "No. The typical human adult types at 40 words per minute. Writing 500 words should take only 12.5 minutes. I can get a reasonably long LessWrong comment written in under 30 minutes. This isn't that hard."

Yet this has not always been satisfying to these people. One of [...]

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Outline:

(00:33 ) 1. Everyone publishes.

(01:37 ) 2. Essentially everyone is yoloing it every single day

(02:29 ) 3. People do not use physical spaces the way you planned.

(03:10 ) 4. Its not too stressful, and is kind of energizing.

(04:02 ) 5. Residents suck at proactively getting help from other people

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First published:

November 12th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wHfseCBgYSiA9Nz47/5-things-i-learned-after-10-days-of-inkhaven

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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