Daily pace is excellent. I get a lot of looks at what I want my writing to look like. I had some very concrete ideas coming into Inkhaven about how I expected to improve, and I’ve already overshot those goals. I expect Weekhaven to be weaker growth stimulus overall.
There should be one day off per week. This would allow people to rest, plan more ambitious & fun events, go on hikes and actually decompress, etc. It would also give residents doing technical work the chance to focus on research rather than writing.
More mandatory, scary feedback from peers and residents sounds good. I’m not making myself get feedback. This is low-agency behavior on my part. At the end of the day, it’s up to the residents themselves to get the most out of the experience. That being said, yes limiting the action space of the residents a bit here would probably help.
Even though I have heavily underutilized them, I’ve gotten a lot of value out of the contributing writers. I overheard a snippet of feedback Andy Matuschak was giving someone else that I’ve been thinking about for days now.
I’ve read 70% of the submissions, and median writing quality is much higher than I expected coming in. There are definitely posts that seem both low insight and low effort however.
I feel pretty well socialized. I don’t expect to form lasting friendships, but many people have already left very deep impressions on me.
Maybe scheduling two, two-week Inkhavens a year will reduce the opportunity cost, and allow you to iterate & filter participants more.
Re (2): I am not sure about the one-day-off-per-week. I think it’s healthy; also I’m not sure that, looking back in a year or two, whether most residents will think “I wish I took it all a bit more measured” or “I’m glad I went all out” that month.
Re (3): Perhaps next Inkhaven, the mandatory things will be:
Publish 500 words every day.
Share your writing with a minimum of one feedback circle per week, and with one advisor per week.
I think some alternate form of (2) could be interesting, where instead of the requirement being 500 words/day it’s 1000 words/2 days or 1500 words/3 days. I feel kind of hampered by daily posting because there’s a few longer posts I’m working on and what I want are some 8 hour deep work sessions on them and instead I’m doing them in these terrible 2-3 hour bits.
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Daily pace is excellent. I get a lot of looks at what I want my writing to look like. I had some very concrete ideas coming into Inkhaven about how I expected to improve, and I’ve already overshot those goals. I expect Weekhaven to be weaker growth stimulus overall.
There should be one day off per week. This would allow people to rest, plan more ambitious & fun events, go on hikes and actually decompress, etc. It would also give residents doing technical work the chance to focus on research rather than writing.
More mandatory, scary feedback from peers and residents sounds good. I’m not making myself get feedback. This is low-agency behavior on my part. At the end of the day, it’s up to the residents themselves to get the most out of the experience. That being said, yes limiting the action space of the residents a bit here would probably help.
Even though I have heavily underutilized them, I’ve gotten a lot of value out of the contributing writers. I overheard a snippet of feedback Andy Matuschak was giving someone else that I’ve been thinking about for days now.
I’ve read 70% of the submissions, and median writing quality is much higher than I expected coming in. There are definitely posts that seem both low insight and low effort however.
I feel pretty well socialized. I don’t expect to form lasting friendships, but many people have already left very deep impressions on me.
Maybe scheduling two, two-week Inkhavens a year will reduce the opportunity cost, and allow you to iterate & filter participants more.
Thanks, v helpful!
Re (2): I am not sure about the one-day-off-per-week. I think it’s healthy; also I’m not sure that, looking back in a year or two, whether most residents will think “I wish I took it all a bit more measured” or “I’m glad I went all out” that month.
Re (3): Perhaps next Inkhaven, the mandatory things will be:
Publish 500 words every day.
Share your writing with a minimum of one feedback circle per week, and with one advisor per week.
I think some alternate form of (2) could be interesting, where instead of the requirement being 500 words/day it’s 1000 words/2 days or 1500 words/3 days. I feel kind of hampered by daily posting because there’s a few longer posts I’m working on and what I want are some 8 hour deep work sessions on them and instead I’m doing them in these terrible 2-3 hour bits.