The Edit: The Good We Can Do
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Our weekly round up of the best articles, podcasts and videos focusing on purpose in life, work and the world.
- Employers and staff seek truce on office working. While some companies are tightening mandates on working from home, more are moving to flexible models – Financial Times
- When your ‘doppelganger’ becomes a conspiracy theorist. If you’re Naomi Klein, you write a book about it – The New York Times
- Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do. Rather than “doing the most good that we can,” perhaps we should be happy with a more modest and manageable goal: “doing most of the good that we can” – 80,000 Hours Podcast
- How fear has shaped human affairs. A new history argues that power depends on frightening people – The Economist
- Stop overworking after vacation. How to retain all the benefits of work recovery and resist jumping right back into the grind – Harvard Business Review
- A knockout technique for achieving more happiness. The best lesson from Mike Tyson’s boxing career is not about ring craft; it’s about having the right goals in life – The Atlantic
- Can words wake us up? Will ‘global boiling’ be the phrase that sparks real action on climate change? Mike Reed examines the role of language in inspiring meaningful action – Creative Review
- What’s mine is mine. Unpicking the psychological reasons people like to own things – The Beautiful Truth
“The journey, not the destination, is what gives us the satisfaction and meaning we truly need.”
Arthur C. Brooks