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Epistemic status: Speculation from two decently informed advocates armed with anecdata.
Note on process: After having some version of this conversation several times and saying, “we should probably write about this publicly,” we took the less heroic route: we recorded one of our conversations, fed the transcript into an LLM, and then substantially revised the structure, substance, and framing ourselves. We will not be sharing the transcript, as it is in...
AFAIK research suggests that people are terrible at predicting what they would enjoy. (Check 80k for this). But personal fit is a crucial thing, once you actually tried (seriously and with being as open as you can) and it does not feel right, you should move on and try something else. After a few diverse “samples” you should get a rough idea of your options and decide what to stick with.