I recently tried to apply the same logic to doing other tasks. A friend of mine does work in intense, 5-10 minute sprints. After doing this for a couple hours, I'm being more and more aware of how most of the work within as task are not actually important for achieving the goal of the task.
Agreed that EAs will lose leverage relative to other groups, but not as much as I think is implied by this take. EAs have a lot of their leverage from being inside labs/leveraging personal relationships with lab employees, and that will continue to be a source of leverage I find it difficult for other groups to mimic.
Nice post! This made me understand another reason why structured lists/courses/programs work quite well for me. Beyond the curation, it just makes it easier to go row mode as I don't need to attempt to steer in a different direction.
Super excited about this!