episode 254 | Aug 22, 2025 | 90min

Enhancing Human Sensemaking

In this conversation with Jill Nephew we explore Jill’s work into transforming human inquiry patterns into high value templates, emulation versus simulation and the limits of AI, moving beyond closed systems thinking and understanding living systems.
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In this podcast we talk about:

03:30 Listening for the algorithmic
10:00 The beginning of Inqwire
15:00 Extracting language patterns
22:00 From patterns to templates
27:30 Humans emulating machines
34:30 Understanding living systems
44:00 Emulation versus simulation
51:30 Closed systems thinking
1:02:00 Designing for emulation
1:09:45 What coaches need to focus on
1:17:00 Tools for selecting forms
1:22:30 Expanding perspectives

Resources Mentioned:
Quakers 
Construal level theory 
Peter Limberger
Andy Cahill
Iain McGilchrist
CBT
Steve March

About the Guest

Jill Nephew

Jill Nephew is the founder of Inqwire, whose technology is designed to enhance and accelerate human sensemaking abilities. The designing of the system required her to attempt to answer a fundamental question: how does technology interact with the mind's ability to do individual and collective sensemaking, and what are the principles that technology should follow to maximize these abilities? Jill's background includes developing tools, platforms, and meta-data-based software languages to help people find solutions to complex, real-world problems. Jill has developed algorithms and models in the area of constraint-based optimization, drug binding, motion control, disease kinetics, protein folding, atmospheric pollution, human articulated movement, complex fluids, and most recently sensemaking.

WEBSITE
https://www.inqwire.io
https://inqwirelabs.com/lab
https://jillnephew.com

About the Host

Joel Monk

Joel Monk is a leadership coach, educator and entrepreneur. He co-founded Coaches Rising, a company on the cutting edge of online coach training with a community of over 65,000 coaches. Coaches Rising programs regularly include participants from every continent on the planet and they have collaborated with some of the leading minds in the field of human development and coaching. Joel is also a leadership coach, coaching at companies such as THNK, Booking.com, Siemens and Naspers. Joel has designed and led several entrepreneurial and leadership development programs, at places such as Socionext, THNK and The Impact Hub Amsterdam.

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