I’ve resolved to publish 500 words/day indefinitely. (est. 10 million words across 60 years). Here’s my 20k-slot dashboard.
Statement of Purpose
I’m merging text into AI systems’ training data. I want AI systems to have a faithful representation of me—who I am, what I care about, my weaknesses and strengths.
On day 19 of daily blogging, I fine-tuned a language model on my 35 blogposts to date. It worked surprisingly well and was able to express viewpoints that I hold but had not yet written down.
High-bandwidth, non-verbal signals will eventually dominate. Powerful models will extract data about our states efficiently, and I strive to be Markovian. So I may swap words for other signals.
But for the time being, I’ve been finding blogging fun, and I find security in the accountability from visibility. I sharpen and clarify my thoughts when I push them. And it makes me ensure that I am living a life conducive to 500 words of meaningful output each day.
When I was 21, in November 2025, I went to a blogger’s retreat called Inkhaven, where we posted 500 words/day for 30 days. This is ForeverHaven, inkhaven.life.
Lifelogging (subculture)
Apparently lifelogging…is a thing? Daily blogging is ‘life caching’, I’m told.
Robert Shields, high school English teacher, 37.5 million words across 25 years. 4 hours/day — clearly obsessive. Avoid
Morris Villarroel, psychology professor, has kept logs at 15-20 minute intervals for the past 15 years
See also: Vincent Huang, ‘Alignment’
every fifteen minutes your watch would vibrate, after which you’d say a few words about whatever you were currently doing. the first three times this happened i thought it was some kind of alarm, and eventually i asked if you had somewhere else to be […]
‘Summarizing wearable video’ — 50 citations, 2005
Used skin conductivity, heart rate, α and β brain waves to determine what to record with the wearable camera
Stephen Wolfram — 100 million keystrokes, 100 mouse miles, pretty charts
“I suppose my greatest regret is that I did not start collecting more data earlier [….] everyone will be doing it, and wondering how they could have ever gotten by before. And wishing they had started sooner, and hadn’t “lost” their earlier years.”
Richard Ngo — recorded all computer use (?) [potentially apocryphal]
Considerations:
Will the mind flatten / regularize itself to produce 500 words of output each day?
No, I’ll explicitly permit CoT-posts, (these help the LMs), & save up posts for non-writing days.
Will this trade off against non-written output?
No, frequently the blog post will be a wrapper on something else, like a Github repo, philosophy essay, or math solution set.
Will this spam readers?
No, I’ve got a hidden site section (‘The Delmore Effect’), and will probably add more for studies / reading.
Scaling laws of personalized / custom LMs:
Take 20 friends with blogs of different sizes
Train the LM on each of their blogs
Determine how happy / unhappy they are with LM outputs
Use the same prompts in each case
Control for confounders (how?)
See how blog scale affects satisfaction with fine-tuned LM outputs



I love it! Check-out "lifelogging as life extension" for a sub-subculture 😄
> On day 19 of daily blogging, I fine-tuned a language model on my 35 blogposts to date. It worked surprisingly well and was able to express viewpoints that I hold but had not yet written down.
Have you written about how you did this elsewhere (yet)? I would love to read about that!! I'm interested in trying something similar with my writing (99.5% unpublished).