Feedback loops I think are the principle bottleneck in my skill development, aside from the fact that if you’re a novice you don’t even know what you should be noticing (even if you have enough awareness to be cognizant of all signs and outputs of an act).
To give an example, I’m currently trying to learn how to generate client leads through video content for Instagram. Unless someone actually tells me about a video they liked and what they liked about it, figuring out how to please the algorithm to generate more engagement is hard. The only thing that “works”—tagging other people. Nothing about the type of content, the framing of the shots, the subject matter, the audio… nope… just whether or not one or more other Instagram accounts are tagged in it. (Of course since the end objective is - ‘get commissioned’ perhaps optimizing for Instagram engagement is not even the thing I should be optimizing at all… how would I know?) Feedback loops are hard. A desirbale metaskill to have would be developing tight feedback loops.
Feedback loops I think are the principle bottleneck in my skill development, aside from the fact that if you’re a novice you don’t even know what you should be noticing (even if you have enough awareness to be cognizant of all signs and outputs of an act).
To give an example, I’m currently trying to learn how to generate client leads through video content for Instagram. Unless someone actually tells me about a video they liked and what they liked about it, figuring out how to please the algorithm to generate more engagement is hard. The only thing that “works”—tagging other people. Nothing about the type of content, the framing of the shots, the subject matter, the audio… nope… just whether or not one or more other Instagram accounts are tagged in it. (Of course since the end objective is - ‘get commissioned’ perhaps optimizing for Instagram engagement is not even the thing I should be optimizing at all… how would I know?)
Feedback loops are hard. A desirbale metaskill to have would be developing tight feedback loops.