"Thinkhaven"

Raemon introduces Thinkhaven, a 30-day rationality exercise inspired by Inkhaven, designed to cultivate the skill of relentlessly thinking new, useful thoughts. Participants must publish a 500-word research journal daily, focusing on cogent but not necessarily conclusive ideas, and include at least one new question per entry. Every two weeks, they must publish a 2,500-word effortpost that develops a concept from vague musing to a form critiquable by others. The program emphasizes forward momentum—exploring new questions and making progress—rather than explaining already-understood ideas.

Thinkhaven draws from a 2022 experiment by the Lightcone team, where daily blogpost-quality writing helped transition from deferential thinking to original strategic and intellectual thought. Raemon envisions mentors offering diverse thinking styles, from classes to informal conversations, with each participant requiring at least one enthusiastic mentor. The goal is to turn participants into original thinkers who generate and refine new concepts, not just repeat existing knowledge.