“We have stumbled into the 21st century with our Stone Age emotions, our medieval institutions, and our godlike technology."
- Edward Wilson
#sensemaking
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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
#sensemaking
For folks awake and paying attention, living the U.S. right now is like Black Mirror meets Get Out.
It’s wild.
#sensemaking
#Strategy, #Sensemaking, #Libraries, #Leadership, #Narrative, #Podcast
larry612.substack.com/p/library-fu...
I hope you find it useful.
Larry
The thing that radicalizes people is extremists.
#sensemaking
Wealth builds a wall of praise.
Within them, good advice becomes meek.
Truth grows rare.
The bots become friends.
#sensemaking
our drive to make sense
In our natural desire to predict the future, we must always stay mindful of the danger of our drive to make sense.
www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/fa...
#facilitation #danger #chaos #SenseMaking #DecisionMaking #PrematureConvergence #RetrospectiveCoherence
The zone is constantly being flood with shit.
On purpose.
The objective is make you stop thinking or feeling anything too much.
It’s anesthesia as a strategy.
#sensemaking
We have to be a thousand, million, nay, BILLION points of light in the futile, empty darkness.
Each person broadcasting a ‘bat signal.’
It might be the only way out for thoughtful, committed citizens who want to change the world.
#sensemaking #perspective #RevolutionWillBeMemeticized
If and or when the Have-Nots™ and the Have-Little Bits™ ever decided to form a coalition, maybe we could have nice things.
#sensemaking
If interest rates reflect risk, and affordability does down as oil prices go up, how does waging war over the Strait of Hormuz align with lowering interest rates to spur the economy?
It doesn’t.
It’s not supposed to make sense.
None of it does.
#sensemaking
If your warfighters are shot down by friends and allies, it makes everything unimpeachable, y’see…
Writing is the evil twin of thinking.
Writing tests whether your thinking can survive contact with language.
#writing #thinking #language
When you cannot govern, be a troll.
Undermine the throne with feints and tweets.
Be silent on virtue until power breaks.
#sensemaking #institutions #governance #power #shitposting #virtue
The #media is still optimized for noisemakers, which is why #sensemaking it just that much more difficult.
inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/21/the-broken-in...
In 1970, Marshall McLuhan stated that “World War III is a guerrilla war of information with no division distinction between military and civilian participation”
The #patriachy would not exist without a #matriarchy.
I don’t make the rules.
#history #institutions #sensemaking
We’re in the Venn diagram overlap of Gell-Mann Amnesia and Brandolini’s Law.
You cannot fix what you cannot name and identify accurately.
#sensemaking
https://www.delta-fund.org/you-built-this/
A large group of people with weapons and money who don’t believe in democracy—or a constitutional republic—won’t just agree to stop.
That’s not going to happen.
They will entrench to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
#perspective #sensemaking
Can’t control the chaos, might as well lean into the cringe.
#shitposting #sensemaking
RE: flipboard.com/@fastcompany/fast-co.-ne...
This is a concession that small language models and edge computing will beat LLMs requiring data centers stacked with GPUs.
#sensemaking
RE: flipboard.com/@huffingtonpost/entertai...
Our political and media class is unable to practice effective #sensemaking, and it’s cringe to watch.
The comparison is not strange, this is how the cognitive decline looks.
Open carry states whose electoral college votes went to Kamala Harris and also have a Democratic governor:
Virginia
Washington
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Maryland
Minnesota
Colorado
Oregon
Connecticut
New Mexico
Maine
Delaware
#sensemaking
If the Kennedy Brothers really were the equivalent of the #Gracchi, now the proscriptions in this #American Republic are being carried out by ICE.
#republic #FirstPrinciples #history #sensemaking
When change accelerates, memory becomes a refuge. Why?
dualisticunity.com/why-nostalgi...
#CulturalAnxiety #SenseMaking
RE: mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/11591886...
This means more folks like AOC and Mamdani.
#sensemaking
When change accelerates, memory becomes a refuge. Why?
dualisticunity.com/why-nostalgi...
#CulturalAnxiety #SenseMaking
When change accelerates, memory becomes a refuge. Why?
dualisticunity.com/why-nostalgi...
#CulturalAnxiety #SenseMaking
Misinformation isn’t just about facts—it’s about how humans process meaning under pressure.
dualisticunity.com/from-viral-v...
#SenseMaking #MediaLiteracy
When change accelerates, memory becomes a refuge. Why?
dualisticunity.com/why-nostalgi...
#CulturalAnxiety #SenseMaking