The Basics Guide

Tag: Sensemaking

  • Worldview as Cultural Infrastructure

    A person’s worldview shapes perception, action, and culture. Owning and sharing it builds coherence, trust, and influence. Shifting from passive inheritance to active authorship enables clarity and impact. Articulated worldviews become infrastructure—structuring relationships, guiding discourse, and enabling bottom-up cultural transformation.

  • Bot-Level Behavior

    Much human behavior is reactive mimicry shaped by social context, not internal structure. True agency requires coherence, consequence, and resilience under pressure. Modern AI amplifies performative patterns, creating feedback loops that erode intent and deepen synthetic consensus.

  • Attention is Agency

    Many systems—biological, social, cognitive, technological—don’t eliminate internal tensions; they govern them. At their core lies a structure: two enduring opposites and a mediating force. The opposites remain; the mediator governs their expression. This isn’t merely synthesis or compromise. This leads to agency.