The War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger

There is a war going on in our current information ecosystem. It is a war of propaganda, emotional manipulation, blatant or unconscious lies. It is nothing new, but is reaching a new intensity as our technology evolves. The result is that it has become harder and harder to make sense of the world, with potentially fatal consequences. If we can’t ma... See more

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.

Clear and unbiased truth in our information ecology is seriously limited by the amount of bullshit we consume every day, in part a result of the overwhelming intensity of marketing motives and the conformity demands of our in-group. Furthermore, the intentions of our information sources are as often as not based on clickbait or ideology rather than... See more

To become healthy and sane we have to develop an ‘informational immune system’ — to protect our minds from the online onslaught and the right epistemology or sensemaking are key.

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