As a fifth year genetics PhD student, I found myself agreeing to mostly everything here. I also think the logic applies to those of us in the field!

> Divergent Tasks are Hard to Evaluate and Reason About By “divergent” I mean loosely defined tasks where it's unclear when they're done. That includes "mapping a domain", "gathering evidence", "due diligence" and generally anything without a clear outcome like "book a hotel", "find a barber", "run this assay", "order new vials"...

This is not just a problem for outsiders, or building a map, it’s actually true. I can’t count how many projects I was told to “find some kind of meaningful evidence” for something that is super tenuous.