Here are some additional links or points that may be of use to some readers. Some of these things are EA Wiki pages; in those cases, I'm sharing them primarily for their bibliographies and the collection of tagged posts.

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/effective-altruism-megaprojects 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/J7PsetipHFoj2Mv7R/notes-on-ea-related-research-writing-testing-fit-learning 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MsNpJBzv5YhdfNHc9/a-central-directory-for-open-research-questions 
• "The underlying logic is that a) your time is valuable and b) receiving funding makes you more likely to follow through in a high-quality way." 
  • That's indeed part of it.
  • But another big part of it is the fact that money can be useful for people! 
    • I think a lot of EA community members are failing to make good time-money tradeoffs, either because they undervalue their time or because they're genuinely somewhat funding constrained (even just in the sense that they have less than 2 years' runway and so are being understandably cautious). More money can help with that. 
    • So this can be relevant even if someone is earning enough / has enough savings that they don't "really need" more money, and that more money would have little marginal benefits for the person's own happiness/wellbeing. 
  • And there's also perhaps the fact that the community having a norm of funding good work at a fairly generous level may incentivise more people to do similar good work. 
    • But that's not my primary reasoning, partly because I think things along the lines of status and a desire to be impactful are probably stronger incentives for many of the relevant people.
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/g86DhzTNQmzo3nhLE/what-are-your-favourite-ways-to-buy-time 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/time-money-tradeoffs 
• Readings and notes on how to get useful input from busy people

I found this very on-point and representative of the current mindset of HEAs within the meta-EA space. Will be sharing with my group!

I was so impressed by how well you captured it, in fact, that I don't think the title does it justice. I don't think you have to change it - and I'm not sure what would make more sense - but just commenting that I wouldn't have inferred the takeaways I got from this post from its current title, which makes me think that this post is going to be about maximizing your time at retreats/conferences.

Thanks for this post! I agree with all 6 takeaways, and also with the idea that these are important points that deserve further signal-boosting. (Though of course there are also some cases where they won't apply, some people who have fully or perhaps overly internalised them, etc. Also it sounds like takeaway 4 was informed partly by two posts of mine, so me then agreeing with it again doesn't add much new evidence.) 

I also think that this style of post - just concisely listing relatively high-level takeaways on a topic - seems useful, tractable, and worth more people doing. (Another example that I'd see as fitting a similar category which comes to mind is https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wGqSqWLTwDrytxeER/update-on-civilizational-collapse-research )

I like this post and find it valuable - thanks Akash!