If you want to be excellent at something, it's extremely useful to do it every day. Athletes, musicians, and writers famously live by this advice. Separately, one of the world's strongest motivators is to be surrounded by ambitious, like-minded people.
For the month of November, we're running a residency for talented writers to hone their craft by writing and publishing a blogpost every single day. We provide food and housing at-cost, so that you can focus on writing.
We'll offer whatever we can to improve the writing experience and help the resident writers grow stronger. In fact, we've interviewed many successful writers about what's helped them, and we'll aim to offer many of the things they described, through mentorship opportunities from celebrated writers, craft-honing workshops, and professional feedback. But all that will be optional. Your commitments are simply to be here and write.
Note: In the quote above, Scott Alexander makes an observation about a correlation he has observed. With this program we will be Goodharting on that correlation. Hopefully increasing the leading variable will produce more of the lagging variable, but of course, perhaps it will merely bring the correlation to zero.