Great post, Joshua! I mostly second all of these points.
I’d add another hot take:
Both the return of fellowships and retreats mostly tracks one variable, and that is time participants spend in small (eg. one-on-one) interactions with highly engaged EAs. Retreats are good mostly because they’re a very efficient way to have a lot of this interaction in a small period of time. More in this here.
Great post, Joshua! I mostly second all of these points.
I’d add another hot take:
Both the return of fellowships and retreats mostly tracks one variable, and that is time participants spend in small (eg. one-on-one) interactions with highly engaged EAs. Retreats are good mostly because they’re a very efficient way to have a lot of this interaction in a small period of time. More in this here.