#348 - Daniel Schmachtenberger - Building Better Sensemaking

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project and works in preventing global catastrophic risk. Having accurate sensemaking is a superpower in the 21st century. As the volume of information we need to sort through increases, the ability to distinguish signal from noise becomes ever more important. Given this, I wanted to ask Daniel exactly how he would advise someone to become an adept sensemaker. Expect to learn the characteristics that a good sensemaking agent should have, why the relationship between sense, meaning and choice making is so crucial, whether Daniel thinks that humanity is too emotional to reach our full potential, at what stage of personal actualisation we should begin to help the world and much more... Sponsors: Get 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 4.0 at https://www.manscaped.com/ (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Check out The Consilience Project - https://consilienceproject.org/ Check out Daniel's Website - https://civilizationemerging.com/ Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome back to the show.
0:03.2	My guest today is Daniel Schmacktemberger.
0:05.8	He's a founding member of the Consilience Project and works in preventing global catastrophic
0:10.4	risk.
0:11.6	Having accurate sense-making is a superpower in the 21st century.
0:15.6	As the volume of information we need to sort through increases, the ability to distinguish
0:19.8	signal from noise becomes ever more important.
0:23.2	Given this, I wanted to ask Daniel exactly how he would advise someone to become an adept
0:28.4	sense-maker.
0:29.6	So today, expect to learn the characteristics that a good sense-making agent should have.
0:34.3	While the relationship between sense, meaning and choice-making is so crucial, whether
0:38.4	Daniel thinks that humanity is too emotional to reach our full potential, at what stage
0:43.6	of personal actualisation we should begin to help the world and much more.
0:48.9	If you're not familiar with Daniel, then today is a little bit of a change of pace.
0:53.3	It's a very considered, very patient conversation.
0:57.0	We're talking about incredibly deep, difficult topics here.
1:00.6	What does it mean to communicate and coordinate in a modern era when we have ancient programming?
1:05.8	How should we contribute to the world at large and the best way that we can?
1:10.5	These aren't simple questions to answer.
1:13.2	To be honest, after I have a conversation like this, I feel moderately exhausted afterward.
1:18.5	But it's incredibly worthwhile.
1:20.1	I love talking to Daniel.
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