Reinforcing

Check whether each trip around the circuit makes the next trip bigger. Every link pushes the same direction, so the result compounds instead of settling. Unlike the self-correcting kind, nothing in the circuit pulls back toward a resting level.

Check whether each trip around the circuit makes the next trip bigger. Every link pushes the same direction, so the result compounds instead of settling. Unlike the self-correcting kind, nothing in the circuit pulls back toward a resting level.

Example

In the inbox case, mark the sign as reinforcing: fast replies signal availability, availability draws more requests, more requests push you to reply faster still. Two weeks of that turns 40 daily messages into 70, and no step in the circuit slows it.