The information that makes you feel included may have excluded someone who deserved to hear it first.

Being told early feels like closeness, and it is worth noticing what route the news took to reach you. Every piece of information that arrives ahead of schedule has an order behind it, and someone directly affected may still be waiting, or may hear it from a person who learned it casually. The pleasure of being in the know is often paid for elsewhere. Inclusion and discretion pull against each other more often than people admit.

When something reaches you early, ask whether the person most concerned has heard; if they have not, holding it quietly is the smallest cost anyone in the situation will pay.