Effort: High
What to notice
Choose what progress to share with selected peers without public ranking.
Where it fits
- Fits
- People wishing to sustain learning or creation with a small support group.
- Use it when
- When each person controls what is shared, with whom and when to stop.
- Avoid it when
- When the system would expose results or inactivity of nonparticipants.
How to build it
- Let each person choose recipients, content and frequency.
- Clearly distinguish private information from the chosen audience.
- Place exit and sharing-stop controls alongside participation.
Measure
- Main metric
- Share of eligible participants acting with support within their chosen audience
- Guardrail
- Sharing pressure, audience mistakes and failed exits
- How to measure
- Allocate comparison groups before exposure and use equal follow-up and eligibility. Track Share of eligible participants acting with support within their chosen audience alongside Sharing pressure, audience mistakes and failed exits.
When it backfires
Never automatically invite peers or expand the sharing audience.
Alternatives
Theory behind it
Psychological safety
Consider whether people can ask questions and discuss errors without interpersonal penalty.
Limited evidence
Progress monitoring
Record and review actual behavior after setting a goal.
Well supported
Evidence limits: An editorial web application; conversion effects on this interface are unmeasured. Domains and interventions differ, so web retention effects need separate measurement. Check the burden of recording itself.