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The Edit: How We Spend Our Time
The Edit

The Edit: How We Spend Our Time

Our weekly round up of the best articles, podcasts and videos focusing on purpose in life, work and the world.

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14th Apr 2023

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