While I understand the benefits of the more configurable futures approach, in most cases I'd just use the Clojure convention and send my task off to an agent. I

While I understand the benefits of the more configurable futures approach, in most cases I'd just use the Clojure convention and send my task off to an agent. It's good to be able to fall back to something configurable when that approach isn't good enough though. Convention over configuration, but allow configuration as an option.