The Sensemaking Companion: Section III

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

Often, we avoid complexity and instead collapse all of our uncertainty into a neat ideology that claims to explain everything. But if we resist that urge and instead lean into it, it can bring us into a state of epistemic humility. We realise just how much we don’t know, and how hard these problems are to solve. And in that acceptance, we often fin... See more

Perhaps more than any other issue, our age is defined by our inability to agree on a shared foundation of what reality is and how to agree on what’s true about it.

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.

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.