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You're talking about feedback loops in Control Theory, which is an established scientific field with strong mathematical underpinnings. The article is talking

• ZephyrBlu 5y ago
  The article is talking about feedback loops in terms of learning, not "business-marketing-whatever bullshit advice" and I think the author makes this clear. This paragraph sums up the motivation of the article quite nicely: "But after achieving proficiency in a field, tight feedback loops are useless. That’s because initially, the learning environment is gentle. The path is well-travelled, there are easily accessible guides, things work according to common sense. As we become proficient, the environment becomes harsher, with noisier feedback. Improving is not as easy. At higher levels of skill, further progression depends on self-learning, on discovering or inventing new practices and knowledge. As skill increases, the gap between optimizing for metrics and optimizing for mastery widens."