#sense-making — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sense-making, aggregated by home.social.
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Pride turns repairable moments into permanent damage.
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We know enough to be worried. We understand enough to see the pattern. We care enough to be affected.
But we do not have enough power to feel agency.
Our new essay is about that gap: between awareness and agency, information and orientation, witnessing and repair.
#CivicIntelligence #Democracy #DigitalCulture #NewsFatigue #SystemsThinking #Sensemaking #MentalHealth #PublicLife #MediaLiteracy #InformationOverload #EmotionalArchitecture #Resilience
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Jim Crow has left the chat.
We the People™ are out here watching James’ nepobaby grandson—Chad Crow—trying to manifest by maxxing himself with self-help podcasts.
It’s cringe, brey.
It’s wild and it’s cringe, my sibling in Dionysius.
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As an introspective person, I am fascinated by people who know—or intuit—something about me that I didn’t already know.
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There are two kinds of people in the world.
One says, “I went through something hard, so I’m going to make sure no one else has to go through that.”
The other says, “I went through something hard, so everyone else should have to go through it too.”
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What does not get recorded does not get believed.
The camera tells the truth no one wants to admit.
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There’s a reason simplicity is so persuasive.
It might not clarify things, but it relieves us.
The moment we stay with the full complexity of something, we run into a limit: of knowledge, of control, of certainty.
And that’s not a place we’re trained to sit in.
So we reach for something cleaner. Something that feels resolved.
It might not be true, but it lets us move on.
#SystemsThinking
#Complexity
#Sensemaking
#Democracy
#CriticalThinking
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There’s a shift happening in plain sight.
It’s not that responsible and reckless ways of speaking coexist. They always have.
It’s that both now carry equal weight, even when the stakes are real lives and real futures.
#Democracy
#GlobalPolitics
#Leadership
#Geopolitics
#Sensemaking
#PublicDiscourse
#SystemsThinking
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Design's most distinctive cognitive contribution — abductive reasoning — remains largely confined to the studio, the workshop, the project timeline. We theorize it extensively (Kolko, Zingale, Dorst), we recognize it as the engine of design synthesis, the mechanism through which incomplete observations become structured hypotheses, through which uncertainty generates possibilities.
Yet when it comes to collective contexts — communities navigating complex territorial challenges — abduction stays trapped in episodic formats, limited by the well-known pathologies of participation: who gets to be in the room, for how long, with what resources, and whose complexity gets actually processed.This is the gap we explored in the paper presented at the Italian Design Society last June with Michele Zannoni and Flaviano Celaschi. The Systemic Relational Insight (SRI) framework, born from my doctoral research at the University of Bologna, proposes a hybrid intelligence process — community and machine — designed to scale the abductive dimension of sensemaking across broader publics, longer timeframes, and thicker layers of data and knowledge.
The core idea: integrate qualitative knowledge from situated workshops with quantitative data and scientific references, generate candidate insights and submit them to community validation (bringing scale in the formula to reach who didn't attend). An insight here is never a single statement delivered by an algorithm. It's a cluster containing multiple versions, each traceable to its genealogy of sessions, voices, and contexts, each carrying different degrees of community consensus, data support, and scientific consistency.
That simple.1/2
#DesignResearch #AbductiveThinking #Sensemaking #SystemicDesign #CommunityIntelligence #HybridIntelligence #PluralDesign
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Donald Trump, Cesar Chavez, and Bill Cosby all had things in common, it turns out.
Each shows how charisma and a carefully curated public image can coexist with—and even shield—private abuses for years.
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The corporate boardroom is increasingly reading like the granddaughters of a bunch of Boomers went to therapy, and the granddads are taking it out on employees, figuring the machine trained on blogposts will be less of a noisy, expensive hassle.
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Capital has become enamored with the idea of not having to pay for people’s health insurance and will find any way to not.
Having machines do the work is the obvious play for that endgame.
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#American oligarchs believing in and supporting the American Experiment is—indeed—considered…quaint.
The #GildedAge 2.0 is built different.
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Capabilities that have made the most advancement in #B2B #professional services, with regard to:
- proprietary well-governed data
- user workflows with embedded APIs
- hyper-niche ecosystem install base
- UVP driven pricing powerare
- audit risk models
- legal outcome prediction
- actuarial pricing
- contract analysis
- regulatory monitoring
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To be frank, the idea of companies selling software needing lots and lots of headcount was counterintuitive to begin with.
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“We have stumbled into the 21st century with our Stone Age emotions, our medieval institutions, and our godlike technology."
- Edward Wilson