OpenAI safety VP Lilian Weng shares her 7-step process for writing research blog posts
SinclairWang1 · x · 2026-10-02
- OpenAI safety research VP Lilian Weng's blog Lil'Log is widely praised for depth; she has shared her writing workflow.
- Her 7 steps: pick a specific research direction, read the key papers extensively, build a taxonomy of the literature, extract shared underlying logic or mathematical frameworks, reorganize around a central thread, fill logical gaps with her own reasoning, and write a coherent progressive narrative.
- Recent posts cover recursive self-improvement, scaling laws, and test-time compute, with feedback from John Schulman.
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