After writing the last essay, I took some time off from thinking about philosophy and when I came back to it, I got some further insights about how to develop my sensemaking system.

I realized that I can separate the parts of the sensemaking essay and write smaller individual pieces that fall under the categories of Conceptual Clarification, Map Exploration, Narrative Examination, Narrative Recompression and Application Principles.

Each mini-essay will have one goal and deal with one topic. Each one will be versioned and can get minor or major updates as I develop the philosophy further. And in this way I can build a knowledge-base of sensemaking mini-essays. Which I’m calling a Sensebase.

The application principles pieces can have a feedback section and the other pieces can have a comment section. Apart from this, there will also be rhetorical pieces; blog posts, essays and eventually books that explain the philosophy in a more readable version, while the sensebase remains more technical for future collaborators. The whole thing will eventually end up on Github probably and developed like an Open Source software, but that’s way into the future.

I also want to start posting a lot more blog posts and not just about philosophy. Instead of posting only highly polished essays once in a while, I’d like to post looser pieces that explore an idea without trying to claim anything final about the idea. I think this is a better way for readers to engage with my ideas because it’s much less overwhelming. And perhaps, I can also start turning some of these looser explorations and rhetorical pieces into video essays.

That’s the update for now. I’m excited to where this thing is heading.

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Cover Photo by The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Unsplash. (Title: The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), Artist: Katsushika Hokusai)