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Feedback

A useful lens for working and communicating with other people.

  1. The useful idea

    Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause and effect that forms a circuit or loop.

  2. How it works

    The system can then be said to feed back into itself.

  3. Why it matters

    The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handled carefully when applied to feedback systems: Simple causal reasoning about a feedback system is difficult because the first system influences the second and

Use Feedback to make your next conversation or work decision more deliberate.

Use Feedback to make your next conversation or work decision more deliberate.

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Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause and effect that forms a circuit or loop.

EvergreenLast verified 2026-07-19

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