What can we trust? Why is the 'information ecology' so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy? This is a fundamental question, because without good sensemaking, we cannot even begin to act in the world. It is also a central concern in what many are calling the "meaning crisis", because what is meaningful is connected to what is real.
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.
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