The ephemerality of nature, burning diaries, the benefits of gossip and more in #TheEdit.

• The excitement of friendship. “I really live only when I am with my friends” – The Atlantic
• Just between us. Is gossip good for us? Kelsey McKinney, a podcast host and a champion of gossip, is out to change the practice’s bad reputation – New Yorker
• “The manager’s job,” 50 years later. The seminal paper sought to debunk some of the myths about what makes a good manager. Does it still apply? – Harvard Business Review
• The fault of time. Grappling with the impermanence of landscape, made evident in Montana’s wildfires and the Cascadia earthquake, Erica Berry tries to hold the shifting lands she loves – Emergence
• Suffused with causality. Humans have a superpower that makes us uniquely capable of controlling the world: our ability to understand cause and effect – Aeon
• I don’t want anyone to read my diaries, yet I can’t burn them. The very act of keeping a diary; we own our flawed, messy narrative rather than burn it, shred it, throw it away – The New York Times
• Life in verse. A curation of our published poems to celebrate World Poetry Day – The Beautiful Truth