practitioner skill versus tools & methods

Over here Al Selvin links to several related blog posts which I find particularly interesting. Read them all (they’re short). In this post I address just one part.
In It’s about the experience, Al says,
Ultimately what matters for approaches like Compendium is not the notation, the software, or the theory; it’s the experience they [...]

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Last-mile Problem for Knowledge

Here’s a beautiful description of global sensemaking in one (long) sentence:
I’m thinking of means to learn about the existence of relevant new work (alert systems), find the texts and the passages we need (search engines), find work already found by colleagues (tagging and social networking systems), find articles similar to ones we know to be [...]

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Acupuncture points for Global Sensemaking?

Are there particular problems or issues that can be identified where the use of Sensemaking tools could make a decisive difference? I imagine this would involve a sequence of finding such a point, applying Sensemaking and related tools to surface and confirm the real nature and cause/effect sequences of what’s going on, and then visualizing/expressing [...]

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LES: life enhancing sensemaking

[cross posted from Trinifar]
Over here, George Mobus poses an excellent question about the philosophical aspects of sensemaking and its operational definition. I think he provides an excellent informal definition with this:
Sensemaking … is about understanding reality sufficiently well that one feels comfortable making statements about the future. That is, not necessarily making predictions, [...]

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