Learn faster by sharing your messy drafts
We're told feedback is the breakfast of champions, but getting it at around lunchtime works best.
Research shows feedback can double learning speed compared to working in isolation. The best time to ask for it is when your thinking is at around 60% complete, early enough to course-correct, refined enough to be useful.
That's about lunchtime in terms of completion.
Nick Turley, Head of Chat GPT at OpenAI calls it being “maximally accelerated”. An approach that led them to release the first version of Chat GPT after a 10 day hackathon. They knew it wasn’t perfect but banked on getting useful feedback and adapting quickly to it.
But most of us wait too long. We polish, refine, and second-guess ourselves until the moment passes and the opportunity disappears. Desperately not wanting to be criticised too much or appearing less than competent.
Meanwhile, those who time it right, get things done much faster, having learned sooner from real feedback.
Fast feedback loops prevent you from doubling down on flawed assumptions or wasting too much time heading in the wrong direction.
When feedback comes quickly, you can still remember your original reasoning and make meaningful pivots before you're emotionally invested in the wrong approach.
The people that move fastest are brave enough to say, "here's my progress so far" and smart enough to listen and respond to what comes back. Just like the folks at OpenAI.
I think we can all agree the UI of the first few versions of Chat GPT were less than perfect, but the feedback they received and their approach to adapt quickly has helped them create the fastest growing consumer product in history. In a little under three years Chat GPT has gone from first introduction to having over 700 million weekly users and is on track to reach one billion by end of this year.
Choose to get more done faster by learning to share your drafts early, even if they're messy.
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