Peer review
Peer review is the assessment of work by knowledgeable colleagues or independent experts to evaluate its quality, correctness, validity, or reasoning and provide feedback.
Writing for Developers: Blogs that get read
The evaluation of a work by one or more knowledgeable colleagues who provide feedback on its quality, completeness, or correctness.
- How it is used
- Uses colleague feedback to uncover major gaps and omissions in engineering blog drafts.
- How deep it goes
- Defines the purpose and practical limits of review, but defers detailed review-process navigation.
- Examples
- Uses omissions involving migration, process impact, original problems, security, and generative-AI feedback.
- What you can do after
- Diagnose major omissions by soliciting focused colleague feedback and evaluating AI-generated concerns.
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Investing for Programmers
Peer review is the evaluation of an analysis or argument by other knowledgeable people to identify weaknesses and improve its reasoning.
- How it is used
- Uses informed challenge to refine investment theses and prevent rushed, assumption-driven decisions.
- How deep it goes
- Provides a practical review loop involving explanation, questioning, documentation, and retrospectives, but not a formal review framework.
- Examples
- Uses a friend challenging a proposed share purchase, documented investment decisions, and the Buffett–Munger advisory relationship.
- What you can do after
- Practice/perform peer review by explaining a thesis, inviting challenge, recording expectations, and revisiting the decision.
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