Sensemaking
Sense-Making
The Personal Knowledge Management approach to Sense-Making is a practical application of Connectivism in that it is inherently embedded in a knowledge network.
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Process
My experience is that sense-making operates in at least two interacting loops:
Fast loop
The fast loop operates many times daily driven by an immediate problem or knowledge challenge. Typically the knowledge artifacts from this loop are those required to solve the immediate problem, e.g. application of knowledge in code, with minimal additional note-taking.
Slow loop
The longer slow loop is typical of the work conducted in a set of Permanent Notes such as this Digital Garden.
Impediments to learning
The natural tendency within the fast loop to do just what the immediate task requires without significant note-taking can be an impediment to deeper learning. The preferred mitigation is to develop habits of Daily Logging and Periodic Reflection.
Working principles
The importance of Half Baked Ideas
Permanent note writing as a fundamental unit of knowledgework
Knowledge work should accrete — We should strive to design practices and systems which yield compounding returns on our efforts as they accumulate over time.