Coming back to this a year later, I notice that I used to treat EAGs being emotionally exhausting as inevitable, but my most recent EAG (London 2024) was much less difficult.
My best guess about why is that I had previously been misinterpreting my emotional feedback and had an incorrect intuition about what part of the conference was most difficult for me. I wrote more about it on my shortform.
Coming back to this a year later, I notice that I used to treat EAGs being emotionally exhausting as inevitable, but my most recent EAG (London 2024) was much less difficult.
My best guess about why is that I had previously been misinterpreting my emotional feedback and had an incorrect intuition about what part of the conference was most difficult for me. I wrote more about it on my shortform.