Did you follow the link in the footnote? [0] I thought it made the case for doing extra quite convincingly.
The gist of the argument is that it's worth spending some small proportion of your work time on exploratory work that might or might not pay off, as opposed to doing more "normal" work (another sprint task or whatever).
For me it described pretty well what I'd already been doing subconsciously for some time. I thought it was interesting to see it framed that way.
Sometimes to be the first to laid off is better then to be laid off in the second or third wave.
Could be easier to find new job is you are in the first wave.
The gist of the argument is that it's worth spending some small proportion of your work time on exploratory work that might or might not pay off, as opposed to doing more "normal" work (another sprint task or whatever).
For me it described pretty well what I'd already been doing subconsciously for some time. I thought it was interesting to see it framed that way.
[0] https://www.bennorthrop.com/Essays/2021/always-do-extra.php