As a potential grant recipient (not in this round) I might be biased, but I feel like there is a clear answer to this. No one is able to level up without criticism, and the quality of your decisions will often be bottlenecked by the amount of feedback you receive.
Negative feedback isn’t inherently painful. This is only true if there is an alief that failure is not acceptable. Of course the truth is that failure is necessary for progress, and if you truly understand this, negative feedback feels good. Even if it’s in bad faith.
Given that grantmakers are essentially at the steering wheel of EA, we can’t afford for those people to not internalize this. They need to know all the criticism to make a good decision, they should cherish it.
Of course we can help them get this state of mind by celebrating their willingness to open up to scrutiny, along with the scrutiny
I think on a post with 100+ comments the quality of decisions is more likely to be bottlenecked by the quality of feedback than the quantity. Being able to explain why you think something is a bad idea usually results in higher quality feedback, which I think will result in better decisions than just getting a lot of quick intuition-based feedback.
As a potential grant recipient (not in this round) I might be biased, but I feel like there is a clear answer to this. No one is able to level up without criticism, and the quality of your decisions will often be bottlenecked by the amount of feedback you receive.
Negative feedback isn’t inherently painful. This is only true if there is an alief that failure is not acceptable. Of course the truth is that failure is necessary for progress, and if you truly understand this, negative feedback feels good. Even if it’s in bad faith.
Given that grantmakers are essentially at the steering wheel of EA, we can’t afford for those people to not internalize this. They need to know all the criticism to make a good decision, they should cherish it.
Of course we can help them get this state of mind by celebrating their willingness to open up to scrutiny, along with the scrutiny
I think on a post with 100+ comments the quality of decisions is more likely to be bottlenecked by the quality of feedback than the quantity. Being able to explain why you think something is a bad idea usually results in higher quality feedback, which I think will result in better decisions than just getting a lot of quick intuition-based feedback.