Why we should be bored, staying purposefully small, imagination under threat and more in #TheEdit.

• Why more people in the world are feeling hopeful (except us). The nations with some of the highest standards of living are seeing the greatest declines in well-being – The New York Times (gift link) 
• You need to be bored, says Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks. Make room for being bored, he argues, and you create the mental space to wrestle with life’s deeper questions of meaning and purpose – Harvard Business Review 
• Do things that don’t scale, and then don’t scale. First, you do the scrappy, personal, labour-intensive stuff to get traction, and then you figure out how to make it huge. But what if it stays, purposefully, small? – Adam Derewecki 
• AI is coming for future. We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what’s left for the human imagination? – New Yorker 
• Lunch with the Green Climate Fund chief Mafalda Duarte. As trust falters before COP30, and the US withdraws from climate pledges, Duarte calls for a new scale of climate investment – Financial Times (gift link) 
• A new theory puts parenting at the centre of human evolution. What else might we learn about ourselves by viewing our past, and perhaps our future, as a story of cooperative care? – The Atlantic 
• The imagination economy. What if we invested in human imagination at the same pace as artificial intelligence? – The Beautiful Truth