Finding the courage to hope, learning to love monsters and more in #TheEdit.

• Learning to love monsters. Windmills were once just machines on the land but now seem delightfully bucolic. Could wind turbines win us over too? – Aeon
• Centuries of avalanches are stored in tree rings. Discovering evidence of deadly deluges of snow from the past could help protect people on mountains around the world, researchers say – The New York Times
• He’s an Oxford-trained philosopher of war. CEOs can’t get enough of him. What happens when philosopher David Rodin gets called in to the corner office – Financial Times
• Opening Theory. An excerpt from Sally Rooney’s fourth novel Intermezzo, author of Conversations with Friends, Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You – New Yorker
• How can I find the courage to not abandon hope? Hope is something we choose – and sustain for the sake of others. Seek out others who are looking for reasons to keep going – The Guardian
• Have communications eclipsed creativity? The paradox of the modern white-collar worker is that she is simultaneously more and less alone than her analogue in any previous generation – The Atlantic
• What are microaggressions? The small words that can have a big negative impact – The Beautiful Truth