Critique as a participant shaping the work

The Overlap #56 (Last one for the year!)

Welcome to a subscriber-only edition of The Overlap!

I’ve promised you that I’d experiment with three subscriber-only editions until October 27th. Today is October 27th!

As a reminder, this is the last Overlap of 2022. I take a sabbatical from November 4 to January 2. I plan to pause my business writing then until I’m back in work mode. So if you’re a monthly subscriber, your subscription will be paused until then.

The Overlap will resume in 2023! We have six subscribers, and two of you have graciously paid the annual (🙏🏽). I initially was going to not continue this if we didn’t have fifteen subscribers. But six subscribers? And two annual payers? This tells me I should keep this going in 2023.

So let's do it.

Once I’m back from Sabbatical, we’ll continue to release these every other week! The plan is:

• January 5: free edition out

• January 12: paid edition out

• January 19: free edition out

• January 26: paid edition out

• …so on.

Onto the post…

Found from this are.na block

We’ve all received unhelpful feedback on our work. But have you ever shared unhelpful feedback?

Chances are you have.

How’d you know your feedback wasn’t helpful? Maybe it wasn't actioned on.¹ It wasn't integrated it into the work. "What! I shared Jilian this feedback. Why didn't their work change?"

So why was your feedback unhelpful?