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**Found:** a real genre of calibration season paperwork. The feedback inbox fills with eleven requests in one morning, all due Friday. Many come from people you met once on a call. Five were picked by the tool, not by the people asking. Each one asks six questions about their impact and growth. The tool has already sent a second reminder.

![Annotated feedback inbox in a performance tool, with callouts on the eleven requests due Friday, a reviewer met once on a call, the six questions times eleven, the second reminder, the auto-matched reviewers, and zero of six reviews received about you.](/kairo/members/img/the-window/eleven-reviews-due-friday.png)

You have written these at eleven at night, swapping adjectives so no two reviews read the same. You have also waited on six strangers to write yours, knowing calibration starts Monday.

## The dry line

Feedback collected at this volume measures who answered, not how you worked. The people who saw your best work are rarely the ones on the list. Pick your own reviewers before the tool picks them for you. Send each one a short note with the project, the outcome, and the moment they saw it. If you cannot name what a reviewer saw, they cannot write it either.
