On ego and understanding

(And let's not talk about 'sensemaking' any more)

Aside: there's a thing around the current rash of discussions about finding shared meaning that kind of turns me off. It's the use of 'sensemaking' as a description of the field. Most of my favourite commentators and thinkers use it. Although it's a perfectly ok word to describe an activity that most of us do, consciously or unconsciously, a lot of the …