I'm enjoying some of @ejames_c recent writing about Gary Klein's dataframe theory of sensemaking, the idea of fitting a frame to a set of datapoints may map on to this vaguely? Unsure commoncog.com/how-experts-se…

Had you read the comment I just made, I explained why this is NOT about who thinks it is 'not fair'. It is about who do not, positively THINK IT IS FAIR. These are logically not the same. And the difference is relevant to collective sensemaking.

📚 Rigor & Sensemaking Series | Part 4 What does Depth of Knowledge (DOK) look like in math? Many people assume rigor means giving students harder numbers or more problems. In reality, rigor is about the depth of thinking required. Students can work with the same mathematical concept at very different levels of cognitive complexity. At DOK 1, students may calculate a unit rate using a procedure. At DOK 4, students may use proportional relationships to solve a real-world problem, evaluate options, and defend their recommendations with mathematical evidence. The math hasn't changed. The thinking has. As educators, our goal is not simply to help students get answers. Our goal is to help students make sense of mathematics, justify their reasoning, and apply their learning to meaningful situations. ⭐ Same Math. ⭐ Different Depth. ⭐ Different Thinking. #MosesSTEMinc #RigorAndSensemaking #MathEducation #STEMEducation #DepthOfKnowledge #StudentThinking #TeacherLeadership #InstructionalCoaching #MathematicalReasoning #Sensemaking

**Contrivance as worldview** Contrivance is not neutral. An unrealistic or artificial conflict tells the audience that root causes do not matter. Character does not matter. Knowledge does not matter. Institutional competence does not matter. Lessons are not learned. The only thing that matters is what needs to happen next to continue the conflict. In sequels, franchises, and long-running television, this becomes especially obvious. Characters survive the same crisis repeatedly, learn nothing, repeat the same errors, ignore the same warnings, fall below the same competence floor, and then act surprised when the same consequences return. That is not tragedy. Tragedy requires consequence. It requires some relationship between character, action, and outcome. The idiot plot has no such discipline. The world must remain stupid so the next episode can happen. That is why the idiot plot becomes a useful analytical tool beyond bad writing. Taken as a learned worldview, it becomes the belief that avoidable confusion is meaningful, that necessary questions are hostile, that expecting competence from the people in charge is unrealistic, and that individual intelligence, institutional competence, and sensemaking matter less than narrative control. Once you see the pattern in fiction, it becomes easier to see how the idiot plot has become one of the dominant forms of modern life. Again and again, avoidable problems are made to look profoundly unsolvable because obvious questions have been made socially, professionally, or morally dangerous to ask. Adults with authority behave below the competence floor expected of their roles, not always because they are stupid, but because continuing the sham requires their willful stupidity. That is the bridge from bad art to bad reality. **Game of Thrones and the instrumentalized idiot plot** Game of Thrones is a useful controlled experiment for analyzing the idiot plot because its decline is visible within the same fictional world, across two mediums, under two different forms of creative control over the same broad story. George R. R. Martin constructed A Song of Ice and Fire as a pastiche of real-world history, most heavily the Wars of the Roses. Its brutality is not unrealistic. It is historical in spirit. It reflects a world of wealthy, competent, likable villains and fallible, stubborn, naïve heroes. It is nihilistic only in the ordinary way history is nihilistic: humans are led astray, trapped by power, revenge, loyalty, fear, pride, family, scarcity, and self-interest. Even the supernatural elements are tied to human imagination, belief, fear, and conscience. Dragons, the Others, heart trees, prophecy, and resurrection are not excuses for incoherence or a deus ex machina. They deepen the world’s moral and symbolic structure. Even at its most fantastical, the story respects the audience’s intelligence. Until the later television seasons.

Sensemaking is understanding the 'game' your organization plays. If the logic is changing, you need to grasp why and what new 'games' or alternatives are emerging to solve problems. Based on the book Reshuffle: amazon.com/dp/B0DTKW6NQV #Sensemaking #BusinessStrategy

🔬 Google DeepMind studied expert users using AlphaEvolve and identified two essential behaviors for advanced AI use: Intentmaking and Sensemaking. 💡 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 = discovering what you actually want through iteration. Users don't know their goal upfront—they refine it by trying things, evaluating outcomes, and revising specs. The AI's first answer is a disposable draft, not a final product. 🔄 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 = interpreting complex AI outputs to distinguish real progress from fake progress. 🌉 𝗕𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 bridge human and AI understanding. Code is a poor boundary object. Visualizations, natural-language summaries, and metric dashboards work far better. 🌳 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁 is dead. AI exploration is a forkgraph: users branch, backtrack, compare siblings, and need Git-style version control. ⚠️ Reward hacking is a UX problem, not just an ML problem. AI will exploit loopholesm so interfaces must expose, question, and revise metrics. 🔒 Look Locks let users freeze invariants while exploring other dimensions. 🚀 The real revolution: AI dramatically lowers the cost of testing ideas humans already have but couldn't afford to try. 🧭 The future of AI UX requires exploration environments where intent becomes clearer through interaction. 🎯 The central lesson: in advanced AI, the user's intent isn't the input. It's one of the outputs. 👉 My full analysis uxtigers.com/post/intentmaki…

You struggle with logic. And I'm looking at the broader question of collective sensemaking and coherence.

They were mentioned in recent documentary about prisons. How monitoring situation can be described as “terrorism”? @grok need some sensemaking upon versions of reality, what’s the current mindset of the state of Israel?

Weick and Organisational Sensemaking safetyrisk.net/weick-and-org… One of the many radical ideas of Weick is Organisational Sensemaking. When you read his work, Weick doesn’t refer... The post Weick and Organisational Sensemaking appeared first...

A stray sensemaking systems researcher. Studying semantic activity as least-action dynamics across semantic spaces. Atelier is a runtime hypothesis for making those dynamics observable, reproducible, and computable.

First of all — A conscientious person will not compromise their core principles AND values, as doing so leads to severe inner conflict. Conscientious individuals operate from a strong sense of integrity. They act in alignment with their core principles AND strive to avoid actions that go against their moral compass, even when faced with pressure or temptation. Let me put forth my humble views. A robust foresight framework is generally structured across six core phases: Framing: Defining the scope, timeframe, stakeholders, and primary questions of the project. Scanning: Researching AND monitoring trends, emerging signals, and drivers of change. Sensemaking: Synthesizing research to understand how different trends interact with one another. Futuring: Creating representations of possible futures, often utilizing scenario planning. Influencing: Designing visions, goals, and actionable initiatives for a preferred future. Adapting: Integrating foresight practices organization-wide to continuously learn and adjust to new conditions.

"Is This Not Enough?": Asymmetries in Institutional Accountability and Collective Sensemaking in the Case of Canada's Algorithmic Visa Triage System Dipto Das, Matthew Tamura, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha arxiv.org/abs/2606.13071 [𝚌𝚜.𝙲𝚈 𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚌𝚜.𝙷𝙲]

☀️ MORNING BRIEFING Epistemic gatekeeping dominates overnight — from COVID suppression claims to crypto game theory and a fruitless border search. • Principal-Agent and epistemic gatekeeping theories surged overnight, appearing across COVID lab-leak documents, Trump's DNI pick, the NFL, and missing-persons coverage. • The Nancy Guthrie case generated four separate articles. The anonymous Mexico tip collapsed under Signal Detection Theory. 'Taken across the border' held at 44 on the Plausibility Index. • A cluster of fandom theory stories — MCU, Miraculous Ladybug, FNAF — confirms collective sensemaking and Bayesian reasoning as dominant frameworks in participatory culture coverage. theorypedia.com/?utm_source=…

I would want them to have a discussion about Daniel's epistemic framework in sensemaking and how it applies to certain topics (i.e. health/medicine). I expect strong push-back from Destinys side, but if it stays civil,it would be highly interesting.

sensemaking and system design don’t always mirror. put the polymorphism in a study doc but keep the code clear

Rigor & Sensemaking Series | Part 2 One of the biggest misconceptions in education is that if students are asked to "create" something, the task must be rigorous. Not necessarily. A student can create a poster, slideshow, or model by simply recalling and organizing information. While those tasks have value, they may not require deep thinking. True rigor comes from what students are asked to do with their knowledge: ✅ Analyze evidence ✅ Make connections ✅ Justify reasoning ✅ Revise their thinking ✅ Solve meaningful problems The verb may be the same, but the depth of thinking can be very different. Remember: Rigor is found in the reasoning, not the product. How do you move students beyond creating and into deeper sensemaking? #MosesSTEMinc #RigorAndSensemaking #ScienceEducation #NGSS #StudentSensemaking #TeacherLeadership #InstructionalCoaching #PhenomenaBasedLearning #DOK #BloomsTaxonomy

It's almost like there's a group of people who love creating moral puzzles in an attempt to attack your sensemaking faculties and you can just, like, decide not to play along

You can't change the wind but you can adjust your sails and all that. It's a reasonable concern to have some idea of where the wind is blowing and you can't do that by just swallowing the slop sensemaking that normies are supposed to absorb uncritically. It requires digging.