Throughout November, I’ve been keeping up with the Inkhaven mandate to write and post a blogpost, of at least 500 words, every day. It's the last day of November, so how’d that go?

First and foremost: most of my blogposts from this month are pretty mediocre, by my own standards. Not necessarily bad, plausibly worthwhile, but I am not particularly impressed by them.

Largely, that's because (unlike the Inkhaven program proper) I did not set aside the entire month for post-writing. I worked most of the month, took a vacation in the last week and a half, and none of that time was primarily focused on writing. The large majority of posts were low-effort in one way or another.

About a third were long standing denizens of my drafts area. For those, I mostly got them done by abandoning whatever vision I originally had for the post, instead filling in only what was already in my head, just enough to make the post shippable at all. Thus posts like e.g.:

Moonrise, which is one half of a really good post on AI alignment
Where's The Capital, which is a minimal viable writeup of a project from years ago
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First published:
November 30th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wELmghiTfjWSGyfvN/november-retrospective

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“November Retrospective” by johnswentworth

LessWrong (30+ Karma)