The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
Our discussion groups meet on video live every weekday, below is this week’s schedule. See full calendar.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Your Values in Tech
Hosted by Audrey Ross & Cass Fellerman
A hopeful group navigating the challenges of maintaining your values in the tech industry while balancing the need to make a living and make a difference.
2 PM ET Fiction as Future Prototyping
Hosted by Mohammad Khan
An interactive workshop that utilizes constraint-driven fiction to uncover professional blind spots and develop actionable strategies for shaping the future we desire.
3 PM ET [Premium] Sensemaking Lab
Hosted by Abby Covert
A monthly session for Premium members to collaboratively share and refine their work in a supportive environment.
2 PM ET Neurodiversity & Inclusion
Hosted by Maring Eberlein & Sammy Voelkel
A supportive gathering for neurodiverse individuals to share experiences and enhance their neuroinclusion toolkit in a safe environment.
2 PM ET Seekers Who Make Sense
Hosted by Jasmine Ibrahim & Sam Sanford
A community for those with profound questions about existence, seeking to explore the depths of humanity and navigate the complexities of life together.
May Day — No Events
Enjoy the holiday — no discussions scheduled today.
What’s going on?
Week of April 27, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
AI Field Notes (Monday, April 20) asked whether AI is collapsing all professional roles into a single "product builder" persona and whether that's a useful frame or just a sales pitch from tool vendors. Making Sense of Ethics (Wednesday, April 22) dove into the thorny ethics of subscription models like how dark patterns, incentive misalignment, and the slow erosion of ownership affect users and businesses alike. Making Sense of Other Humans (Thursday, April 23) tackled power: what it means, how different frameworks describe it, and why boss relationships feel categorically harder than other human relationships. And Making Sense of Complexity & Chaos (Friday, April 24) explored how experience and perception shape our response to chaotic situations and what it means to "slow down internally when the environment is fast."
Themes from last week:
- The gap between building fast and building well
- Incentive structures shape everything and not always in our favor
- Power, agency, and the stories we tell ourselves
SPECIAL EVENT
May 15, 2026
12 to 3 PM ET
Sensemakers Salon
The Sensemakers Salon is a FREE half-day of soulful activities, mutual aid workshops & discussions that matter to our members, but open to the public.