I don’t think the coach analogy is apt. While they may have played the sport, their role is getting the best out of a team of people—a manager, rather than a technical contributor.
A better analogy may be an editor. Many editors are failures as authors, but are very good at critiquing starts, seeing where the flow and pacing needs improvement, and improving the overall work.
However in a world where many editors come to you and submit feedback with varying and contradicting messages, you need to quickly filter by something, so you can focus your limited time and resources on the most valuable submissions.
This is relative to the time and attention that each author has available. Someone with nothing to do will be happier to accept comments than someone who for whatever reasons just doesn’t have time right now to engage.
Prior experience with creating the subject matter may not be the best filter, as you’ve pointed out in the post.
I’m curious what you think might be a better filter for assessing credibility and quality, quickly.
Or do you disagree with the notion that people need a filter?
I don’t think the coach analogy is apt. While they may have played the sport, their role is getting the best out of a team of people—a manager, rather than a technical contributor.
A better analogy may be an editor. Many editors are failures as authors, but are very good at critiquing starts, seeing where the flow and pacing needs improvement, and improving the overall work.
However in a world where many editors come to you and submit feedback with varying and contradicting messages, you need to quickly filter by something, so you can focus your limited time and resources on the most valuable submissions.
This is relative to the time and attention that each author has available. Someone with nothing to do will be happier to accept comments than someone who for whatever reasons just doesn’t have time right now to engage.
Prior experience with creating the subject matter may not be the best filter, as you’ve pointed out in the post.
I’m curious what you think might be a better filter for assessing credibility and quality, quickly.
Or do you disagree with the notion that people need a filter?