Seed or reset the stock

Make a bounded one-time change to the current level so the system can escape a trap or cross a threshold.

New city, month four. You know friendships come from a flywheel, invitations produce closeness and closeness produces invitations, but your flywheel sits at zero: nobody invites you because nobody knows you, and nobody knows you because nothing ever brings you together. The loop everyone promised would carry you cannot start itself.

Seed or reset the stock makes a bounded one-time change to the current level so the system can escape a trap or cross a threshold. The cue: a loop that would run fine if it were running, stuck below its activation point, or a stock so depleted that normal turns cannot recover it. Steps: identify the stock that is too low (acquaintances who might invite you); make a deliberate, finite injection, hosting three gatherings yourself over six weeks and joining one recurring group; declare it a seed with an end date; then step back and test whether ordinary returns now sustain the wheel, meaning invitations arrive without you initiating. The visible change: the loop crosses its threshold and starts feeding itself. The word bounded is load-bearing here: if the system only moves while you keep injecting, you have not seeded a flywheel, you have become its motor, and the structure itself, not the stock level, needs the work.