Certainty costs more than it’s worth, the magic of reading, and why the arc of history still bends toward each other in #TheEdit. 

• Brené Brown: there is still a robust market of CEOs who ‘recognise the importance of empathy’. “Really courageous leaders don’t look for permission from a political climate to be good people” – Financial Times
• Reading is magic. The end of literacy is the end of public reason – Substack 
• What we lose when everything is ‘-coded’. On the social internet, our fascination with analysing the hidden messages in our culture has been flattened into one word – The New York Times 
• Why your ‘perfect’ life feels so empty. “I’ve spent most of my career around some of the most accomplished young people in the world. What I’ve found is that they are undeniably, desperately, incorrigibly unhappy. Why?” Arthur Brooks has the answer – The Free Press 
• The arc of human history is toward cooperation, not division. Globalisation did not fail – it improved the lives of billions of people. The next phase of human development could push us to a new level of global abundance – Big Think 
• She found the Mother Tree. Her science revealed that trees look after one another in the forest. Now, Suzanne Simard says, the only way to save the Earth is to put Indigenous ecological knowledge first – Psyche 
• The cost of certainty. Margaret Heffernan is the first guest on The Beautiful Truth Podcast. Amid the quest for precision, she argues, uncertainty reveals the creative freedom that artists inhabit with ease – The Beautiful Truth Podcast