Going Back: Inkhaven

Inkhaven 2 is awesome, but notably different than Inkhaven 1. Everyone’s louder and a bit less rationalist and posting closer to the deadline. Also there are too many meta posts. (And now there’s one more. Whoops.) Mingyuan (from cohort 1, like me) has a good post about the differences between the Inkhavens and their causes. I agree with essentially all of that post. I’m just here to add my personal experiences and opinions to the internet. Here are some of them: 1. I picked a good week I came week 3 of Inkhaven, which had a few advantages. First, I overlapped with most of the other returning alumni. The writers of the new cohort are awesome and I’m really glad to be able to get to know them, but I think it would have been a harder task to just meld into the group without the other alumni here. Second, everyone already had established their routines. This means that people knew how much of their time they could devote to social activities versus writing. Also this meant that there was…