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

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.