“A Statistical Analysis of Inkhaven” by Ben Pace

Okay, we got 41 people to do 30 posts in 30 days.

How did it go? How did they like it?

Well I just had 36 of them fill out an extensive feedback form. I am devastated with tiredness, but I have to write my last post, so let's take a look at what happened. Thanks to Habryka for vibecoding this UI.

Key Outcomes

Pretty reasonable numbers. For context on the overall rating and NPS, here are some other numbers for comparison.

EventAverage QualityNPSSanity & Survival Summit '21–65Palmcone '22–52LessOnline '248.758Manifest '248.768Progress Studies '24–63Manifest '258.233LessOnline '258.537

A little less good than the big conferences, and the NPS is a little better than this year's festival season.

From one perspective this is quite impressive; all the listed events are short bursts where interact with a lot of people you like and who are high-energy but rarely get to see; this was a month-long program that left people almost similarly excited.

Let's see the distributions for these questions.

Mostly everyone rated it pretty high, and shockingly many people are excited to spend another month of their life and pay money to be here again. Crazy.

There's a details box here with the title "Return [...]

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Outline:

(00:33) Key Outcomes

(03:30) How do people feel they grew?

(04:04) Pressure

(04:37) Wellbeing

(05:22) Support Quality

(06:51) Bodega Bay Trip

(08:04) What was the best thing?

(08:31) What was the worst thing

(08:45) Takeaways

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First published:
November 30th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6p9jzWCC9aFTdGZuJ/a-statistical-analysis-of-inkhaven

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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