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the painful gift everyone requests, dreads, and quietly hopes is just praise
means information given to someone about their performance or work, intended to help them improve — or, in electronics, the return of part of a system's output back into its input.
from A 20th-century compound, literally 'feeding back.' It was born in engineering, describing a signal looped from a machine's output to its input — the same effect behind that ear-splitting squeal when a microphone gets too close to its speaker. From the control rooms it drifted into offices and classrooms, where the loop became human: your output fed back to you, ideally helpful, often squealing all the same.
- audio origin
- Jimi Hendrix weaponized the screeching guitar version on purpose
- sandwich myth
- praise-criticism-praise rarely fools anyone receiving it
- loop danger
- runaway feedback loops can crash entire financial markets
- brain bias
- negative feedback sticks harder than positive, every time
amazon customer reviews — largest product feedback system with over 500 million reviews
rotten tomatoes scores — aggregated film criticism feedback affecting box office, 10,000+ movies rated
reddit upvote downvote system — community content feedback mechanism since 2005, 1.7 billion daily votes