I can personally attest to the usefulness of exactly that kind of feedback. I truly feel lucky to have a friend as close to me as my roommate, we’ll call him Roux.
Back in high school, I was awkward and constantly scheming up ways to become socially savvy but failing in ways that were not charming in the least. Roux was a battered kitten just out of the ‘nut house.’ He wore a black outfit with black baggy jeans that were painted all over with white fabric paint and accentuated with white handprints all up the front. On the back was a patchy paint job concealing the words ‘I made this shirt in the nut house’ with ’46 + 2′ written over it.
Over the years we’ve been friends I have learned more from him than I would in two of my lifetimes without him, I believe. Our minds are so closely synched that conversation can be deep and informative with a very reliable regularity. We ask each other questions like the example above regularly. To ask a question like that, one of us need only outline a concept to fully form it in the other’s mind and then ask the question, just as directly in the example above.
That said, I suppose I should put in that I feel Roux and I get a lot of benefit from this kind of ‘QA Session’ because we are so familiar with each other’s minds. I can’t see anything wrong with setting up a site or subsection (my vote is for separate site) as an area for these “Crocker’s Questions,” but it seems likely to miss the mark often.
Perhaps you could include some verification during the early stages and find out if the offered advice is useful.
I can personally attest to the usefulness of exactly that kind of feedback. I truly feel lucky to have a friend as close to me as my roommate, we’ll call him Roux.
Back in high school, I was awkward and constantly scheming up ways to become socially savvy but failing in ways that were not charming in the least. Roux was a battered kitten just out of the ‘nut house.’ He wore a black outfit with black baggy jeans that were painted all over with white fabric paint and accentuated with white handprints all up the front. On the back was a patchy paint job concealing the words ‘I made this shirt in the nut house’ with ’46 + 2′ written over it.
Over the years we’ve been friends I have learned more from him than I would in two of my lifetimes without him, I believe. Our minds are so closely synched that conversation can be deep and informative with a very reliable regularity. We ask each other questions like the example above regularly. To ask a question like that, one of us need only outline a concept to fully form it in the other’s mind and then ask the question, just as directly in the example above.
That said, I suppose I should put in that I feel Roux and I get a lot of benefit from this kind of ‘QA Session’ because we are so familiar with each other’s minds. I can’t see anything wrong with setting up a site or subsection (my vote is for separate site) as an area for these “Crocker’s Questions,” but it seems likely to miss the mark often.
Perhaps you could include some verification during the early stages and find out if the offered advice is useful.