[oldalum]

“In a crisis event, one thing people do is engage in sense-making — seeking out facts and coming up with explanations,” Kate Starbird, an associate professor at the University of Washington, told me this week. “It’s a way of psychologically coping with the uncertainty and anxiety of the event, and of having agency in the response.”

seems a lot like what we're doing in this forum! (BTW, looks like she's tenured now. Hope she's not helping coach their bball team on the side! :)
NY Times opinion piece

[oldalum]

“In a crisis event, one thing people do is engage in sense-making — seeking out facts and coming up with explanations,” Kate Starbird, an associate professor at the University of Washington, told me this week. “It’s a way of psychologically coping with the uncertainty and anxiety of the event, and of having agency in the response.”

seems a lot like what we're doing in this forum! (BTW, looks like she's tenured now. Hope she's not helping coach their bball team on the side! :)
NY Times opinion piece