Advancing women of colour to the C-suite, how we learn from failure and more in this week’s #TheEdit.

• Do five days in the office add up? Hybrid working helps keep staff and lowers office costs, but some pushback will continue – Financial Times
• Is it enough to empower corporate women? “Chief is a club for white women,” says Sibil Patri, commenting on the lack of support to foster women of colour’s corporate growth – The New York Times
• Building a better relationship with your notifications. Whether or not design can create a better, calmer relationship with our devices and their notifications – Creative Review
• What to learn from failure. Past experience can offer highly valuable insight into future outcomes, but only when leveraged effectively – Harvard Business Review
• The decline of the city grid. The oldest form of city planning is falling out of fashion – The Economist
• The data delusion. We’ve uploaded everything anyone has ever known onto a worldwide network of machines – The New Yorker
• A collection of cherry blossoms. Spring started a little more than a week ago, and the Northern Hemisphere has begun to warm; flowers and trees are blooming – The Atlantic
• How do we speed up the transition to renewable energy? Andrés Gluski, President and CEO of AES Corporation, discusses the perspectives we need for a faster renewables transition and what might be hindering this mission – The Beautiful Truth