Pattern

Boosting engine

You might say: reinforcing loop, snowball, flywheel

A loop in which each change pushes further in the same direction, so it speeds up. Meadows: the more it works, the more power it gains to work.

Ask

What feeds the loop, and what would stop it?

Sources

1. Donella Meadows, Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, positive/reinforcing feedback, leverage point 7A negative feedback loop is self-correcting; a positive feedback loop is self-reinforcing.

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