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…

Survivor Literacy

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

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

I’m testing a metric I currently call Feedback Response Time.

It measures the time from real feedback becoming visible to a change being live that clearly responds to it.

Before I go any further:
If this already exists under a different name — in research or practice — I’d really like to know.

Looking for references, counterexamples, or reasons why this would not work.

https://en.no-bullshit-agile.de/feedback-response-time.html

#systemsThinking #lean #feedbackloops

Feedback Response Time

Feedback Response Time measures how fast real feedback leads to real change. A missing metric for understanding learning speed in work systems.

No Bullshit Agile – Agile Work in Practice