#Sensemaking

Secular people have a humility problem. When you're deeply religious, you know your knowledge & sensemaking is imperfect. You have an intuition that while truth can be known, humans are

There’s a persistent community of taste emerging around sensemaking of noisy social media around developing events. It’s like fandom, with connoisseurs of the play by play getting snotty. Things like

The process of "systemic sensemaking" starts after every catastrophe: from Pearl Harbour to Challenger/Columbia to 9/11 to Covid-19. The system holds the knowledge but a crystallizing event solidifies its relevance.

Ten years ago today, a drilling accident far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico caused an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig — and a massive oil

The Prepaid Economy.

While I was away, I took the opportunity of being offgrid to familiarize myself with the works of Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, & Franz Fanon. I'd heard you all

Richard D. Bartlett

for at least the next couple months every organisation in the world is a startup1/n Extreme pressure to innovate just to stay in the same place, meanwhile the environment changing

Sometimes I pour a stiff drink and read through the whole LinkedIn, Gartner, Webinar enterprise software literature and it has a kind of weird inebriated internal consistency to it. (1/)

Most people I talk to knew a global pandemic was possible but they didn't believe it could happen to them. I knew it was possible, because I've studied risks of

Dr. Rahul Mitra

NEW PUBLICATION: If you've wondered why and how so many people seem untroubled by the thousands of people affected #WaterAffordability crises, even if they're happening just down the road, this

Hi #NGSSchat #NGSSslowchatOne powerful instructional strategy is to select anchor phenomena or topics for #SciEd units that involve the use of science & STEM knowledge and practices as part of

1) Pretty much as long as I've been in this business, I've been griping about *reification* That's the problem of turning ideas and concepts and images — and people, for

Dr Elizabeth Buchanan

horrific gutting of Arts & Social Sciences. just last yr I co-authored a report commissioned for the Australian Office of National Intelligence (ONI) - on behalf of the National Intelligence

I thought very hard about how to use the precious time and attention a few hundred people gave me in my keynote this morning. I have heard countless #scicomm talks,

1/ Infant idea; not sure if new: Compositional atomism isn't true, but what I'll call "compilational" (in reference to computer science) atomism is trueBut everything compiles down to "the Dao,"

Matthew Pirkowski

Do you ever wonder why it feels like the Internet has made us collectively dumber, despite the fact that it increases individual access to information?The answer lies in the concept

Matthew Pirkowski

If memetic content possesses gravity within information space, what can we learn from applying the insights of relativity to the memetic space?First, let's classify traditionally centralized media outlets as centers