• a particlar form of sensemaking, wher the inputs are parctical, scientific, or scholarly theories, findings, and data, and the output is a coherent intellectual whole-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts
• synthesis can guide decision-making for complex problems

Creating shared context

• Oftentimes, his solution to get people up to speed is a gateway analogy, where he presents his idea through the lens of one his audience might understand.

  • concepts.magnetic-concept-problem
  • eli5
  • explain at 5 different levels

• In our interviews, virtually everyone struggled to bring other people up to speed on their projects, but the theme of a collective narrative emerged as a pattern of people who are on the same page.

• At this point, the synthesizer would either find an individual with shared context, or they would need to come up with a concise framing to act as gateway analogies and simple entry points to share.

References

• Scaling Synthesis, Multiplayer TFT
• C- Synthesis is hard to do with people who don’t share context with you