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The Edit: No Shortcuts to Wisdom
The Edit

The Edit: No Shortcuts to Wisdom

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

2 minute read

12th Sep 2025

Lamenting the brainstorm, vulnerability at work, what we leave behind and more in #TheEdit.

  • Brené Brown doesn’t want to be your self-help guru anymore. The author and podcaster wants to apply her old ideas about vulnerability and empathy to the workplace – The Daily
  • The love we leave behind. Practically no one would have heard of John Donne today had T.S. Eliot not resurrected his name. We want valued things to last, but so often they don’t – The New York Times (gift link)
  • AI will never be a shortcut to wisdom. Real understanding doesn’t come from outputs; it comes from practice – Big Think 
  • The last days of brainstorming. Enjoy the peculiar melange of whiteboards and humans while you can – The Economist (gift link)
  • The 12 points of pleasure at work. A simple framework to go from career crisis to career clarity (without changing fields) – Dear Self
  • Pause at one hundred miles per hour. Can liminal-space therapy be a thing? – New Yorker
  • Between stars and sand. Widely regarded as one of the leading artists of her generation, these are Katie Paterson’s visions of infinite landscapes – The Beautiful Truth

“I find it intriguing that grasping 100 years can be more challenging than conceptualising a million.”

Katie Paterson