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Inkhaven

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Inkhaven

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Inkhaven is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between August 04, 2025 and March 30, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “Lighthaven (the rationalist community campus in Berkeley) is hosting Inkhaven - a blogging bootcamp”; “He will attend Inkhaven this November”; “Inkhaven, a “blogging residency” where forty-one early-career would-be bloggers stay”. It most often appears alongside ACX, Berkeley, Gwern.

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  • Category: Events
  • Mention count: 5
  • Issue count: 5
  • First seen: August 04, 2025
  • Last seen: March 30, 2026

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Open Thread 393
August 04, 2025 · Original source
2: Lighthaven (the rationalist community campus in Berkeley) is hosting Inkhaven - a blogging bootcamp aimed at people who want to blog more but struggle with motivation. Selected fellows will live on site for the month of November, and write one blog post per day or else be kicked out. There will be some mentors around including Gwern, Scott Aaronson, and me. I don’t want to over-endorse this - I have no idea whether it will create any kind of lasting motivation or tendency that sticks around after the program, for most people blogging is a low-reward activity, and the cost is pretty steep - but I think it’s a good experiment for Lighthaven to try, and trust potential applicants to make good choices for their own situation. Cost is $2,000 (program only) to $3,500 (program plus housing for one month) to $4,700 (program _ housing + meals). Some financial assistance available. Apply here. And yeah, they should have called it “Writehaven”.
Inline links: Inkhaven, here
Non-Book Review Contest 2025 Winners
October 17, 2025 · Original source
Bishop’s Castle, by Sean Carter. Sean just graduated from CU Boulder, where he studied CS and applied math. He is now freelancing for a year before he starts grad school. He will attend Inkhaven this November. His great loves in life are creation, cats, and compasscraft. He blogs at collisteru.net and hopes to build his own castle someday.
Inline links: Bishop’s Castle, collisteru.net
‘Red Means No’ Orgies, reviewed by Eneasz Brodski. Eneasz is best known for creating the full-cast HPMOR audiobook/podcast, and he now podcasts at The Bayesian Conspiracy covering rationalist general-interest topics. He has also published the novel What Lies Dreaming, a Lovecraftian horror set in 2nd century Rome. He blogs at Death Is Bad and will be participating in the Inkhaven residency this November.
Inline links: ‘Red Means No’ Orgies, full-cast HPMOR audiobook/podcast, The Bayesian Conspiracy, What Lies Dreaming, Death Is Bad, Inkhaven
Open Thread 406
November 03, 2025 · Original source
3: This November, Lighthaven is sponsoring Inkhaven, a “blogging residency” where forty-one early-career would-be bloggers stay with them for the month and have to write one post per day or get kicked out. Follow along here. You may recognize this year’s book review contest winner Bill Friedman, last year’s winner AmandaFromBethlehem, ACX meetup czar Skyler, and last year’s ACX grantee Sasha Putilin. And here is a prediction market on how many people get kicked out.
Inline links: here, Bill Friedman, AmandaFromBethlehem, Skyler, Sasha Putilin, a prediction market
Open Thread 418
January 26, 2026 · Original source
1: Inkhaven was a blogging residency/bootcamp/program in Berkeley last November. The conceit was that residents had to write one post per day for thirty days, or else get kicked out without a refund. I ran some sessions, and so did other people you might recognize like Gwern, Zvi, Ozy, Aella, and Scott Aaronson. People seemed to like it (average rating 8/10, see also reflections here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc; when you make forty people write every day, you sure do end up with a lot of written reflections on the experience). They’re doing it again this April, and you’re invited to apply. You’ll need ~$3,500 (some scholarships available) and a month free. I plan to help again. Application deadline March 1.
Inline links: Inkhaven, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Open Thread 427
March 30, 2026 · Original source
5: I’ll be away the next few weeks on an Important Journalistic Fact-Finding Mission. I’ll post some old essays from the queue, but they might not be very timely, and I’ll respond to comments and emails less than usual. This also means I’ll miss the first half of Inkhaven - sorry to anyone who I told I would be there - but I’ll still be around for the second half.