Reviews

Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm by Christian Madsbjerg

aprilinpieces's review

informative medium-paced

3.0

kristasf's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

hildegard's review

4.0

I enjoyed this book and found it to be somewhat of a valuable antidote to our currently fashionable worship of numbers. Madsjberg touches on a number of subtopics -- the importance of cultural knowledge, neuroplasticity, and what learning looks like from an observational standpoint, for example -- and his supporting anecdotes are useful and sometimes fascinating (George Soros and German culture was a favorite.). My gripe is that sometimes his subpoints came across as repetitive. A closer reread of some parts made the distinctions a bit clearer, but I think there were areas of glossing rather than explaining terms clearly.

Overall, a very worthwhile read, though.

adamjohnson's review

4.0

Interesting ideas about sensemaking, and valuable critique of the "silicon valley mindset", though I think sometimes Madsbjerg makes a few liberal leaps with logic.

christianhartman's review

3.0

The main claim of this book that many reviews have cited Already is profound and worth thinking about. However the execution of this book was a little lacking. Still worth reading so that you can do your own thinking