IMO when receiving feedback it's important to understand the context of the person giving it. Some people, like those classified here as 1-2 star reviews, migh

IMO when receiving feedback it's important to understand the context of the person giving it. Some people, like those classified here as 1-2 star reviews, might just not understand what you're trying to do, or it just might not be to their taste. That feedback can be discarded after you parse it for anything that might be useful. Sometimes a negative review can be positive - I have a friend whose opinion I trust 100% on certain aspects, but we have diametrically opposing ideas about others. If he tells me he doesn't like certain things, I actually consider that a positive. As the author says, what you really want are people who are aligned with you in most dimensions, understand what you're trying to do, and can see how to make it better. Those people are worth their weight in gold. The important thing is to know what _you_ want to do well enough to know when feedback is going to help you get there, and when it's trying to get you to go somewhere else.