pattern set
Adaptive Loops
Adjust as You Go
Patterns that connect action and feedback so systems can adjust over time.
Practice Area > Designing Learning Loops
Creating explicit cycles where action, feedback, and reflection build on each other. Makes learning part of system rhythm.
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pattern set
Model Callibration
Keep Models Useful
The practice of updating mental models as new evidence becomes available.
Understand Designing Learning Loops
Ability to embed iterative sensemaking into workflows so adaptation is continuous.
Learning loops connect action, feedback, interpretation, and adaptation. They transform experience into learning. A learning loop exists whenever a system acts, observes the result, interprets what happened, and adjusts behavior. Without explicit learning loops, mistakes repeat, successes remain mysterious, adaptation slows, and systems become brittle. The goal is not constant change. It is continuous adaptation informed by experience.
