Nobody loses their purpose the way they lose a set of keys. It slips away in smaller trades – a habit here, a choice handed off there – until one day you’re asking where it went. This week’s #TheEdit is about tracing it back.

• AI isn’t magic and it isn’t doom. It’s jagged – brilliant at some things, strangely stupid at others – and the real skill now is knowing which is which – TIME
• The planet is…up to something. A timelapse from the Artemis II mission doesn’t shrink us the way “Pale Blue Dot” once did – it does the opposite, showing just how consequential we’ve become, for better and worse – Aeon Videos
• Eating alone. A new book on convenience culture argues that every friction-free tap – the delivery app, the ride share, the smart speaker – just moves the real cost somewhere less visible: the driver’s pay, the food’s quality, the dinner nobody cooked together – Longreads
• Infant memories: Lost but not gone? Neuroscientists now think they’re locked, not deleted, which changes what forgetting means, and what might still be retrievable – The Transmitter
• ‘I’ve never figured out how to live in the world’. Novelist Derek Owusu on BPD, missing the recovery house that once held him, and turning the parts of himself he can’t escape into his best material – The Observer  
• A monk’s guide to finding happiness. What happens when you finally sit with the discomfort instead of reaching for the phone – Feel Better, Live More Podcast with Dr Rangan Chatterjee  
• In 1906, a journalist warned that nobody read properly anymore. It sounds exactly like every conversation we’re having about phones right now – The Beautiful Truth