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The standard corporate answer to burnout is to hand the people who are burning out a resilience workshop and a meditation app. The workload doesn't move. Jessica's starting position is the reverse: programs fail when they ask individuals to adapt to systems that are making them ill, so the work has to be done on the systems. It's a design problem before it's a personal one.

I arrived at something similar from the opposite end of a very large field — I spend my time arguing that IR teams should stop hand-assembling work a machine can run, because judgment and attention are the scarce things. Her half has better evidence behind it than mine.

The Thomas family — Solomon, Martha and Chris — founded The Defensive Line after losing Ella, their daughter and sister. Its mission is to end the public health crisis of youth suicide by centring the experience of young people of colour and changing the way we communicate and connect about mental health. In practice that means education for the trusted adults around young people: noticing when something has changed, asking better questions, knowing how to show up before a crisis rather than during one.

I met the three of them at SXSW. It is very hard to sit with a family who have turned the worst thing that can happen to them into a functioning national organisation and come away unmoved.

If you or someone you know needs to talk to someone right now: text HUDDLE to 741741, or call, text or chat 988, any time.

A nonpartisan nonprofit founded by Robert Kraft, built around research into how antisemitism and hate actually spread online, and campaigns designed to counter it. The blue square itself is deliberately quiet as symbols go — it doesn't announce what it stands for, which is rather the point, because it prompts the question instead of ending it.

The pins are free if you want one.

Founded in 1976 on a rubbish-strewn vacant lot that had been slated for demolition, and now the only privately owned community garden of its kind in New York City — funded entirely by grants and donations, run entirely by volunteers, open to anyone from dawn to dusk every day of the year. I'm a member.

If you are anywhere near the Upper West Side in April, the tulip festival is worth the detour. The rest of the year there is opera, qigong and an arts festival, which is a fairly good summary of the neighbourhood.

The National Investor Relations Institute is where the IR profession argues with itself about disclosure, engagement and what the role is becoming — which, given how fast the second of those is changing, is a useful room to be in. NIRI named me to its 40 Under 40, so I am not a neutral observer here either.