The Sensemaking Companion: Section II

Second person sensemaking involves how we communicate with one another, moving toward authentic conversations grounded in honesty and curiosity; conversations that take us somewhere new.

Third person sensemaking might be the hardest - it’s a shared journey on which we all have to build an information ecology and a culture that can hold the weirdness, contradiction and complexity of the world we’ve created.

First person sensemaking is about knowing ourselves and improving our cognitive hygiene and emotional awareness.

And while each of us needs to cultivate those skills, we cannot do it alone. As Vervaeke pointed out in a recent lecture, we need a self-reflective community, a Sangha. Jordan Hall puts it somewhat more mechanistically; we have to learn how to come together in a decentralised collective intelligence. The first step of that is to come into sovereign... See more

good sensemaking requires discernment, humility, clarity of thought and emotional regulation. And these aren’t things we do, or things we can buy. They’re capacities we develop over time through practice

Sensemaking is about becoming adept at navigating the world’s complexity with growing mental complexity.