What are your intuitions regarding length? What’s the minimum time needed for a fellowship to be impactful, and at what length does it hit diminishing returns?
I want to leave open the possibility that fellowships are not an effective thing to do regardless of their length, so maybe the minimum time is 0.
But, conditional on thinking otherwise/going ahead with it...
I think it might be helpful to think about diminishing returns for participant stays, vs. fellowship length. You can imagine a 10 year-long program where people only stay for 4 months max at a time. This isn’t as silly as it sounds—very few people stay from the very beginning to very end of these things anyway, so program beginning/end don’t seem like very important milestones to respect (vs. participant stays).
I think participant stays hit diminishing returns at 3 months. (Much more weakly held/pulled from nowhere than claims in this post.)
I worked ~24/7 as an organizer, which became challenging after ~5 months.
What are your intuitions regarding length? What’s the minimum time needed for a fellowship to be impactful, and at what length does it hit diminishing returns?
I want to leave open the possibility that fellowships are not an effective thing to do regardless of their length, so maybe the minimum time is 0.
But, conditional on thinking otherwise/going ahead with it...
I think it might be helpful to think about diminishing returns for participant stays, vs. fellowship length. You can imagine a 10 year-long program where people only stay for 4 months max at a time. This isn’t as silly as it sounds—very few people stay from the very beginning to very end of these things anyway, so program beginning/end don’t seem like very important milestones to respect (vs. participant stays).
I think participant stays hit diminishing returns at 3 months. (Much more weakly held/pulled from nowhere than claims in this post.)
I worked ~24/7 as an organizer, which became challenging after ~5 months.