https://vegasharmon.com/works/gwerns-2025-inkhaven-writing-interview/ Recent content in Gwern's 2025 Inkhaven Writing Interview on Vegas Harmon Hugo en Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/every-idea-feeds-on-itself/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/every-idea-feeds-on-itself/ I feel like that was in part, I got much better at the skill of noticing things and thinking harder about predicting things. Also, there is just a thing where after a while every idea feeds on itself and builds on itself, you like to pick up a whole collection of useful ideas which you can apply to everything. I love… Gian-Carlo Rota has a good quote for how he does research where he said like, “Everyone has two mental tools that they apply to every problem, and a great mathematician will have 3. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/experiment-on-yourself-to-have-something-to-write/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/experiment-on-yourself-to-have-something-to-write/ If you don’t have an idea for something good to write, well just do an experiment on yourself and it’s easy to pick a unique experiment that no one has ever done before and boom, now you have something to write about and analyze. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/turn-the-chat-into-a-blog-post/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/turn-the-chat-into-a-blog-post/ I talk with people all the time who have done these quite challenging, impressive technical projects or AI projects which would be a meaningful, valuable contribution if they would just turn what they just told me in the chat into a blog post, and yet they don’t.[2] And so no one else ever knows about it. There’s many such cases.