It'd be fun to join in from afar by pledging to do the same things, but for nowhere near the cost. (The place looks super neat, but I'm not paying that much, don't live near there, and need to report to my employer's office twice a week.)
I wonder if there'll be an aggregator of the blog posts written as post of this cohort (and others, if there's more cohorts).
Back in the day it cost a round of drinks at the pub to be read and questioned about your work in progress:
Until late 1949, Inklings readings and discussions were usually held on Thursday evenings in C. S. Lewis's rooms at Magdalen. The Inklings and friends also gathered informally on Tuesdays at midday at a local public house, The Eagle and Child, familiarly and alliteratively known in the Oxford community as The Bird and Baby, or simply The Bird.
interesting idea, kind of like the y-combinator of blogging except with upfront tuition being paid instead of a longer-term investment by the 'provider'--i wonder if that business model could work as well?
It feels like there's a particular ideology uniting the bloggers involved that isn't actually declared on the page, centering on Lesswrong and the kinds of conversations hosted there. I think that's fine for that community; I'd love to see a version of this for people who buy into a more humanist version of the present and future.
Oh, hey HN! I run Lightcone Infrastructure which runs this residency (as well as LessWrong.com and the venue, Lighthaven.space).
Happy to answer questions if anyone has any. Ben (one of my co-founders) is more centrally in charge of it, but I should have enough context to answer really any question.
This is something I might otherwise consider, but Gwern being an advisor gives me pause. Awhile back I shared a blog design on Twitter in response to someone doing a “show me your cool stuff” kind of thing, someone replied and tagged gwern and then he replied with a bunch of very unconstructive crap-on criticism. I had looked up to him before that. Maybe he’s different in person but based on that interaction I have no desire to find out.
Edit: if someone can explain why this was instantly downvoted I would genuinely appreciate knowing where I went wrong here
Man I wish I had $3.5k to do this. Actually I wish I had $3.5k to do this and try to go into total overdrive mode on my queer comics for a while, I could probably crank out a page a day if I just sat my ass in front of the computer all day instead of going out and doing errands and slacking around the park.
Oh well, guess I'll stay in New Orleans and draw queer comics at a less punishing pace instead.
(actually sheesh if we use the standard conversion rate of "a picture is worth a thousand words" then my usual peak of two pages a week is probably more work per week than the stated minimum of 500 words per post.)
Why is that a "residency" ? Isn't it rather a "retreat" ? Anyone knows how to know about more weekly or monthly events like this for writing and others creative topics (and more in Europe :) ?
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 51.7 ms ] threadI wonder if there'll be an aggregator of the blog posts written as post of this cohort (and others, if there's more cohorts).
Happy to answer questions if anyone has any. Ben (one of my co-founders) is more centrally in charge of it, but I should have enough context to answer really any question.
The main reason to delay: I've started writing relatively recently, and expect I might have more posts I'd showcase in my application by then.
Edit: if someone can explain why this was instantly downvoted I would genuinely appreciate knowing where I went wrong here
It seems unduly personal.
Oh well, guess I'll stay in New Orleans and draw queer comics at a less punishing pace instead.
(actually sheesh if we use the standard conversion rate of "a picture is worth a thousand words" then my usual peak of two pages a week is probably more work per week than the stated minimum of 500 words per post.)