Receiving more Feedback
Do more
People are craving feedback. Everybody wants to know how they can improve. What they are doing wrong and what they are doing right. Focusing only on yourself will limit the amount of feedback you can get. My crazy proposal for you is to get feedback not only on the work you are doing, but also on the work somebody else is doing.
Receiving Feedback from more people
If you are working alone, you won't receive feedback from anybody else.
Likewise, if you are working with 2 people, you receive feedback from your coworker.
Equally, if you are working in a team, you receive feedback from the whole team.
However, if you make your work public or semipublic, you can receive feedback from more people.
My advice is to make most of your work public, so you can receive and ask for feedback from more people. If you share your work/article on social media, you can receive feedback from strangers.
Feedback from strangers may be better because they are more rational and less emotional. Just make sure they have knowledge and experience in the field they are giving feedback.
You should get feedback from as many people as possible, so you can get different views from your work, and improve in the right direction.
Receiving Feedback faster
The faster you can get feedback, the faster you can improve.
If you think, you are a vector with magnitude and direction. The feedback will adjust your direction to go in the right direction.
Instead of waiting for your work to be 100% completed, you should get used to sharing drafts and working in progress (WIP).
Further, a faster feedback loop let you connect better the cause and effect of your actions, making you learn faster and better. It will also make you avoid going in the wrong direction.
Receiving Feedback doing more
You only get feedback when you do something new.
The more output you have, the more feedback you can receive.
Pushing yourself to your limit by doing more work than you are used to, will make you more productive and also make you receive more feedback, improving your feedback loop.
Especially, doing more work will also make you receive feedback in different areas.
Receiving Feedback by giving feedback
I started my first developer community back in 2016. Every day, I answered as many questions as showed up in our Slack community channel. Every answer was like feedback for me, as validated if the knowledge I had was solid. The more questions I answered, the more questions they gave me.
Moreover, I started mentoring more and more people. Most of my mentoring was Q&As, but I also gave feedback on how can they improve to get the first job, get a promotion, to move to a better company. Each mentee, in the end, made their own choices and decisions. The results of their decisions, for me, were feedback on what we should improve. This is how I learn and receive feedback from other people's work.
I provide consultancy to companies, and I also learn with them when they learn.
In Conclusion
These are a few tips on how to get more and faster feedback from your work and also somebody else works. Sharing your work with more people or in public can make you receive more feedback. If you wanna feedback, explicitly ask for feedback from people. Further, sharing WIP can increase the amount of feedback you receive. Indeed, doing more work in different areas will also increase the amount of feedback.
Helping and giving feedback to people will also give you more feedback, even if you didn't do the work.
At Woovi we give and receive feedback every day if you wanna work in a high-growth startup we are hiring.
I love your synthesis on feedback - I feel like a lot of junior folks tend to miss on "Instead of waiting for your work to be 100% completed, you should get used to sharing drafts and working in progress (WIP)." Thanks for sharing!