L · LOOPS
Quick Recipes
Try a focused change to a repeating pattern. Explore examples and alternative approaches.
How do I do it?
Try a focused change to a repeating pattern. Explore examples and alternative approaches.
Choose a named move below to open its instructions.
- Loop in Three
Draw 3 changing variables and see if the third genuinely feeds back to the first; if not, it's just a chain.
- One More Turn
Ask what this action makes more or less likely the next time the situation recurs.
- Snowball or Thermostat?
Test whether a deviation amplifies itself or recruits its own correction.
- Bathtub Test
Name what accumulates, what fills it, and what drains it.
- Delay Detective
Mark the lag before you double the dose or declare victory.
- Fix That Feeds
Ask whether your relief weakens the very capacity that would remove the need for relief.
- Bottleneck Walk
Follow the work until you find where waiting piles up and completions stop rising.
- Ceiling Hunt
Ask which resource, capacity, trust, or permission will cap the next gain before you chase it.
- Yo-Yo Check
Look for the pairing of overcorrection with delayed feedback that drives oscillation.
- Winner Gets Fuel
Check whether current success controls future resource allocation and starves the alternatives.
- Arms-Race Mirror
Write each side's defensive action as the other side's trigger.
- Scoreboard Hijack
Compare the rewarded proxy metric against an independent measure of the real outcome.
- Goalpost Drift
Freeze the original standard and check whether it has quietly slid without anyone choosing it.
- Policy Boomerang
Trace how a reasonable rule changes behavior in ways that later defeat the rule.
- Break One Arrow
Perturb one link while holding everything else steady so you learn which edge actually matters.
- Friction Flip
Add friction to a harmful loop or remove it from a helpful one.
- Seed the Flywheel
Subsidize the first few turns, then test whether natural returns can sustain the next turn on their own.
- Shorten the Echo
Move valid feedback close enough in time to affect the very next attempt.
- Brake, Reserve, or Cap
When things are unstable, decide whether you need less gain, more stored buffer, or a bounded response.
- Four Steering Knobs
Inspect the target, the signal, the rule, and the reward before blaming execution.