Now, you might think “Why not bring the deadline back to like 8pm, so that people have the night off?”. But that’s kind of antithetical to what Inkhaven is here to offer. Should I just cut out 4 hours of their day where they can’t write? I assure you, they wouldn’t spend the late hours precociously working on tomorrow’s stuff. They selected into being the kind of people who needed an externally imposed deadline to get stuff done. They’d just be losing a good chunk of writing each day.
I’m not observing the residents very closely, but I tentatively roll to disbelieve that most of the residents who are publishing last-minute are making full use of the day to write. My guess is that having e.g. a 10 pm deadline wouldn’t reduce “active writing time” by anything like 2 hours for most residents; they would simply “get down to business” earlier in the day. Someone mentioned that this would substantially reduce the amount of time that residents have to integrate feedback from the feedback circles, which happen right before dinner. That seems true and somewhat difficult to avoid given the current structure. I still think that forcing the last-minute writing to happen two hours earlier has a lot of benefits: residents are less tired when they’re doing their last minute writing & editing, and they have more time to socialize, unwind, and spend some time doing less “pressured” research/writing/ideating/etc.
Yeah, I agree. An earlier deadline would cut out procrastination time, or more accurately, it would just make people write more efficiently per unit time. I’d honestly be pretty excited to try having a deadline even as early as 6pm.
Seconding this, I try to get my posts out by 6pm so my homies on the east coast can read them, but sometimes I faff about. I think it would be really good if the deadline was 9 or 10pm, and then I feel like I can chat to people, do more slow collaborative pieces with others, and talk about their posts with them. I feel like this might help with, like, idea generation and stuff as well? If there’s a few hours in the day where you can talk about your posts and the posts others want to write.
I’m not observing the residents very closely, but I tentatively roll to disbelieve that most of the residents who are publishing last-minute are making full use of the day to write. My guess is that having e.g. a 10 pm deadline wouldn’t reduce “active writing time” by anything like 2 hours for most residents; they would simply “get down to business” earlier in the day. Someone mentioned that this would substantially reduce the amount of time that residents have to integrate feedback from the feedback circles, which happen right before dinner. That seems true and somewhat difficult to avoid given the current structure. I still think that forcing the last-minute writing to happen two hours earlier has a lot of benefits: residents are less tired when they’re doing their last minute writing & editing, and they have more time to socialize, unwind, and spend some time doing less “pressured” research/writing/ideating/etc.
Yeah, I agree. An earlier deadline would cut out procrastination time, or more accurately, it would just make people write more efficiently per unit time. I’d honestly be pretty excited to try having a deadline even as early as 6pm.
Seconding this, I try to get my posts out by 6pm so my homies on the east coast can read them, but sometimes I faff about. I think it would be really good if the deadline was 9 or 10pm, and then I feel like I can chat to people, do more slow collaborative pieces with others, and talk about their posts with them. I feel like this might help with, like, idea generation and stuff as well? If there’s a few hours in the day where you can talk about your posts and the posts others want to write.