Right now, people on the right side of politics are coming together over shared #culture: things like traditions, values, and ways of life.
People on the left side of politics are coming together over shared #ideas and beliefs about how society should change.
#sensemaking
Tyrants will fall to tyrannicide, while beneficent monarchs will attract loyal followers, who will keep a good ruler in power. In foreign affairs too, virtue will increase success, since people will be more eager to ally with someone respected for his faithfulness, generosity, and honor. A virtuous man will have few enemies, at home and abroad, and will live with a clear conscience, free from the Sword of Damocles. Lying and betraying to protect your kingdom would not work long-term, since, once it was exposed, no one would trust you, and if it was not exposed the sin would worm away in your heart, making you more likely to do other reckless crimes, leading to your undoing.
Apropos of nothing.
via @adapalmer
#history #sensemaking
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.
#sensemaking
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.
#sensemaking
How do our #MentalModels shape how we sense the world? Join us on 7 May to dive into this topic with experienced contributors Jewlya Lynn and Joy Green, part of our #sensemaking learning & practice series: www.schoolofsystemchange.org/courses/sens...
#systemsthinking #systemschange
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.
#sensemaking
#American oligarchs believing in and supporting the American Experiment is—indeed—considered…quaint.
The #GildedAge 2.0 is built different.
#history #sensemaking
As the information ecosystem continues to deteriorate, our ability to make sense of things declines along with it. Thanks, AI. #SenseMaking
"Netanyahu denies death rumours in social media clip which Grok falsely branded AI" www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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#communitycare #poetry #networks #collaboration #changemakers #systemschange #consultants #sensemaking
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 power
are
- audit risk models
- legal outcome prediction
- actuarial […]
To be frank, the idea of companies selling software needing lots and lots of headcount was counterintuitive to begin with.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/ai-la...
#sensemaking
“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
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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
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
You cannot fix what you cannot name and identify accurately.
#sensemaking
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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
