Oscillating

Look for swings instead of steady growth or a settled level. When a correcting loop reacts to information that arrives late, you overshoot, then overcorrect the other way, and the system saws back and forth around a target it never holds.

Look for swings instead of steady growth or a settled level. When a correcting loop reacts to information that arrives late, you overshoot, then overcorrect the other way, and the system saws back and forth around a target it never holds.

Example

Your inbox is the sawtooth: you ignore it until 400 messages hurt, then binge four hours to zero, feel safe, ignore it again. Two years of Friday-zero, Wednesday-chaos. The swing says fix the trigger delay, not the folders.