The Loudest Request Is Rarely the Most Important

Product teams drown in feedback: tickets, sales calls, NPS, stakeholder opinions. Without a scoring system, the loudest voice wins. Here's what replaces gut feeling.

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Balancing loops seek equilibrium. They resist change - not because people are stubborn, but because the system is designed that way.

To change a system with strong balancing loops, you need to change the set point itself. Not just push against the current state.

Work with them, not against them.

#SystemsThinking #ChangeManagement #FeedbackLoops #Equilibrium

Relational Anthropology – Systems Theory

Chapter 15 explores the intersection of Systems Theory and Relational Anthropology, revealing that both internal and external worlds function on similar principles. The chapter highlights themes li…

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Executives keep asking "How do we use AI to make better decisions?"

The honest answer: clean your data first. Deduplicate your contacts. Reconcile the three spreadsheets tracking the same metrics with different definitions.

Nobody wants to hear that. So they build dashboards on top of garbage and blame the model when outputs are incoherent.

The intelligence was never the bottleneck.

https://www.paulwelty.com/the-loop-nobody-bothers-to-close/

#AI #DataQuality #FeedbackLoops #Leadership

The loop nobody bothers to close

Most systems observe. Almost none learn. The difference is a feedback loop — and the boring cleanup work that makes it possible.

Paul Welty, PhD

@Doomed_Daniel @ainmosni
You guys would like the Japanese approach which I've read is exactly what you describe. W Edwards Deming describes it in his books. https://deming.org/books/

#Deming #Cybernetics #FeedbackLoops #SystemsArchitecture #Japan #Japanese

Books - The W. Edwards Deming Institute

The W. Edwards Deming Institute
The Logic of the Seed: Every complex system started as a 'glitch' that learned how to repeat itself. Finitude is the first constraint; feedback is the first liberation. 🗝️🌱 #AFEI #FeedbackLoops

the science fiction article that caused the stock market to dip very recently:

"This is the first time [June 2028] in history the most productive asset in the economy has produced fewer, not more, jobs. Nobody’s framework fits, because none were designed for a world where the scarce input became abundant. So we have to make new frameworks. Whether we build them in time is the only question that matters.

"But you’re not reading this in June 2028. You’re reading it in February 2026.

"The S&P is near all-time highs. The negative feedback loops have not begun. We are certain some of these scenarios won’t materialize. We’re equally certain that machine intelligence will continue to accelerate. The premium on human intelligence will narrow.

"As investors, we still have time to assess how much of our portfolios are built upon assumptions that won’t survive the decade. As a society, we still have time to be proactive.

#scifi #ai #economy #feedbackLoops #systemsThinking #stockMarket
https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS

A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future

Citrini Research

AI won’t replace developers. It will replace your software process.

AI talk is stuck on speed. Trap. The real shift is technical deflation: software gets cheaper to produce, fast.

Moat shifts from code → spec quality + verification.

Track: time from “clear spec” → “validated working software”.

Cybernetics for delivery = tight feedback loops + automatic correction.

https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from-spicy-autocomplete-to-the-software-factory/

#AI #SoftwareEngineering #FeedbackLoops

"Earth’s climate is now departing from the stable conditions that supported human civilization for millennia. Crossing critical temperature thresholds may trigger self-reinforcing feedbacks and tipping dynamics... with long-lasting and potentially irreversible consequences"
We'd be in trouble even without them, but #feedbackloops #climatebreakdown
https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322%2825%2900391-4

I really love feedback loops! This is all done just using OBS.

No sound btw, just visuals.

#feedbackloops #feedback #visuals