The Edit: A Poem for You
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Understanding time, battling for attention and more in this week’s #TheEdit.
- A poem about you, for you. A newspaper’s critic-at-large shares one of his favourite love poems for National Poetry Month – The New York Times
- We still don’t fully understand time. We can measure time but there are all kinds of time that we still can’t really fathom – TIME Magazine
- Is remote work good for women? Being in the office affects time devoted to giving and getting help – Financial Times
- Waiting for the weekend. What we choose to do looks increasingly like work, and idleness has acquired a bad name. Herein, a history of leisure – The Atlantic
- The battle for attention. Holding on to what matters in a distracted age – New Yorker
- A career without a purpose. Shift your focus from “purpose” to “meaning” – Harvard Business Review
- Can professional services firms transform into purpose-led organisations? Charles Wookey speaks to Vincent Clancy, CEO of Turner & Townsend – The Beautiful Truth
“In the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth / between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles…”
Frank O’Hara