Some things you can explain, and some things you just know when they’re right – a song, a line, a way someone conducts a room. This week’s #TheEdit follows the thread of rhythm and taste between a cellist, a DJ and a historian’s honeymoon.

• What if we were all a little more like Yo-Yo Ma? Yo-Yo Ma has been asked the same questions in a hundred interviews and still finds something new to say. A portrait of the world’s most curious cellist, 70 years into a life built on listening – The New York Times
• The mind-blowing chaos that underpins the world. A honeymoon in 1920s Kyoto is the reason the city still stands today. A political scientist on the flukes, hunches and passing clouds that shape a life far more than any five-year plan – Big Think
• The human frequency. He built a radio station on nothing but instinct – no charts, no data, just whether a song makes him feel something. A portrait of a DJ who trusts his gut over everything else – Psyche
• More nothing now. Play stops being play the moment you start keeping score. A case for doing things purely because they feel good, no outcome required – Aeon
• Adrian Matejka: Poetry Unbound in Conversation. “If a poem doesn’t swing, it’s really not much of a poem.” A poet on rhythm, metaphor and writing the truths other people won’t say – On Being Podcast  
• The sound of your voice. Fifteen years after he stopped making music, a musician and podcast host went looking for his voice again – and found it by finally letting other people in – The Bitter Southerner   
• Lead like an orchestral conductor. Great conductors don’t play a single note. What orchestral leadership can teach anyone trying to bring out the best in a room, not control it – The Beautiful Truth