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 Making Sense of the Future
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 Making Sense of 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.
12:30 PM ET Some Assembly Required
Hosted by Rebecca Hathaway
Build a storytelling template to describe how you show up for others. Instantly apply it to a fictional challenge.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Language
Hosted by Clair Rock & Emily Nimsakont
A supportive group focused on skill-sharing and fostering inclusive language practices to enhance communication and create a safe space for difficult questions.
What’s going on?
Week of June 22, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week AI Field Notes (June 15) took up the question of what we trade away without noticing when we outsource sense-making to AI — a prompt that resisted easy answers and opened into wide-ranging reflection on attention, agency, and the hidden costs of speed. Making Sense of Change (June 16) returned to first principles: what does change actually mean, and is it something we do or something that happens to us? The conversation moved across cultural frameworks, internal versus external transformation, and what it takes to be genuinely ready to change. Making Sense of Other Humans (June 18) focused on conflict, using Gottman's "four horsemen" — blame, contempt, stonewalling, and defensiveness — as a framework for examining how we behave when things get hard with other people, and what more skillful responses might look like.
Themes from last week:
- The hidden cost of speed and outsourcing.
- The gap between knowing and doing.
- Attention, noticing, and what slips past us.