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2022-02-18

How do we support Sensemaking?

How do we support the "making sense" of others ie. how do we share what we are doing?

Ans: See the diagram and discussion below. In short, We are creating a "base" sense-making layer that people can then reference (and, even in near term, can start saving Stephen time / become a useful resource for journalists)

Our Approach to Sensemaking and Why It Matters

#todo/writing write this up in a coherent essay

  • Crypto like climate change and vaccination in representing a breakdown / challenge to sensemaking
    • Controversial and talks to underlying ideological positions
  • Collective sense-making seems ever more important
  • Getting harder for various reasons: growing complexity, decline in trust / authority
  • Here we set out what we are trying to do that may be a bit different and we think offer real value
  • Need the underlying web of concepts and theses
    • AND a map of that space so as not to be overwhelmed
  • AND connection of those concepts and theses to the day to day sensemaking in journalism, on twitter etc.
    • Need to go down to basics, need to get into capital formation, econ 101. How does the stock market work?
    • This is bad, but everything is bad - thats what we need to deconstruct. Lumped into an ontological blob of nothingness. The danger of the nihilist position. Or the leftist position - everything in capitalism is bad.
      • Epistemological (leading to moral) nihilism
      • "Everything's a scam"
      • "Theres nothing or theres only power"

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