The Edit: How We Spend Our Time
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How people are navigating flexible work, the superpower of sensitivity and more in this week’s #TheEdit.
- What do people do all day? The video diaries of nine workers reveal the new freedoms and burdens of flexible work – The New York Times
- The not-so-secret key to emotional balance. Crying can help you keep your feelings in check. It’s also inextricably bound up in spirituality – The Atlantic
- The banana index. A different way to measure the climate impact of food – The Economist
- Clean energy is moving faster than you think. Investment in new large-scale fossil fuel projects is now a risky proposition – Financial Times
- The exhausting history of fatigue. Having too much to do can be tiring; having nothing to do may be worse – New Yorker
- Sensitivity can be a superpower at work. How managers can create a more inclusive and supportive workplace culture that benefits everyone – Harvard Business Review
- Intergalactic eye candy. A video by Nasa helps us to understand what we’re really seeing when we see magnificent images of space – Aeon Video
- Beastly: Our complicated relationship with animals. Keggie Carew, author of Beastly, discusses what it means to be human, what it means to be animal, and what it means to be both – The Beautiful Truth
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones but of moments.”
Rose Kennedy