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Making a Buffer Bigger Steadies a System and Makes It Slower to Change

The buffer rung. Rests on lev-leverage-ladder-orders-intervention-points and directly on stk- (buffers and stocks as stabilisers) - the stock notion must already exist. Paired deliberately with lev-shortening-a-delay-as-a-lever so students do not treat 'add slack' and 'react faster' as the same move; feeds lev-resilience-comes-from-slack, which generalises the trade-off to shocks nobody planned for.

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Buffer Size as a Leverage Point in Systems Thinking

The size of buffers and stabilizing stocks relative to their inflows and outflows is a leverage point in systems thinking: a stock (material standing within a system) or buffer (an excess reserve tha…