You rarely get proof that you made the right call, that the work mattered, or that the story you’ve always believed about a life, or a love, holds up. This week’s #TheEdit sits with what’s left when the proof never comes.

• How to make difficult decisions, according to philosophy. Some decisions don’t have a right answer, however long you agonise over them. A philosopher explains why that’s actually good news – Big Think
• Gloria Steinem gave it all. She knew you might spend your whole life walking toward a world you’ll never enter, and that it doesn’t excuse you from walking – The New Yorker
• How to find purpose in an age of emptiness with Arthur Brooks. Arthur Brooks has spent his career studying happiness, and he says most of us are chasing a goal that won’t deliver what we think it will. He calls it the “arrival fallacy” – Feel Better, Live More Podcast   
• 10-Minute Challenge: Angel Oak. A four-hundred-year-old oak has survived hurricanes, wars and several centuries of people walking straight past it. This is what happens when you stop and actually look – The New York Times   
• The extraordinary untold story of Freddie Mercury: Mary Austin on her best friend – and love of her life. In her first interview on it in decades, Mary Austin on the 35-year bond neither of them could quite explain – The Guardian  
• The many mysteries and lessons of the Bayeux tapestry. The Bayeux Tapestry is back in England for the first time in 950 years, and after nine centuries, historians still can’t agree on who made it, or why – The Economist   
• Why is everyone in tech so sad? A knowledge worker watches a colleague quit to take up knitting, and asks the question everyone in tech is quietly asking themselves: what’s actually the point of any of this? – Noema     

• What is an Accountability Sink? Why do organisations keep making decisions nobody seems responsible for? Blame has to go somewhere – it just doesn’t have to go where the power is – The Beautiful Truth