I'm pulling out of the parking space. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

I had taken my son to the orthodontas and into school today, so I'm starting from our school.

But as long-time listeners know, our school is right by my house, so you should get a full podcast today.

So I have a fun topic today. I'm going to talk about it a very important tool that needs to get used.

Feedback. So Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Outliers where they talked about how you get good at something and you have to do it for 10,000 hours.

But most people miss of that thing is it's 10,000 hours with constant feedback.

Feedback is very important to the process.

So I talk all the time about how what we do is iterative.

And what it means is you do something, you get feedback often from playtesting and stuff,

learn, make changes, and then play test again.

And that part of the process, part of an iterative process, is using feedback as a means

to improve what you are doing.

And that feedback doesn't always have to be play testing.

There are, as we'll see today, there's multiple ways to get feedback.

Okay, so what I've done today is I've broken the feedback into four sections.

There's four kinds of feedback I'm going to talk about.

First is self-feedback, how you are giving yourself your feedback. Next is team feedback, how the design team is giving you feedback.

Then it's department feedback, how other people in R&D are giving feedback. And finally, the audience, how the audience gives feedback.

So I'm going to talk a little bit about how I think feedback can best be used and how it affects magic.

Okay, number one, self-feedback.

So I don't think a lot of people necessarily realize that you are giving yourself feedback, and that one of the most important things is understanding what you,

what the feedback you have from yourself.

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