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A desk, pictured from above, with typewriter and other items for work

Blog Post

4 work lessons from leaving my job

Article

Screened Out

Yuval Noah Harari presenting his TED talk explaining the rise of humans

Video

What explains the rise of humans?

A leaf, lying on the grass

Blog Post

4 health and wellbeing lessons from leaving my job

The cover of The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Book

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

A screen grab from the Music and Life Youtube video

Video

Music and Life

A screen capture from Adam Curtis' documentary HyperNormalisation

Film

HyperNormalisation

The cover of Out of the Wreckage by George Monbiot

Book

Out of the Wreckage

The cover of the DVD for The Visitor, a film about a college professor's friendship with a Syrian-Senegalese couple and their battle against deportation

Film

The Visitor

Didier Sornette presenting his TED talk on how to predict the next financial crisis

Video

How can we predict the next financial crisis?

Video

Protect and Resist

Website

Streetbank

The Roots featuring Bilal perform an NPR Tiny Desk Concert.

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The Roots feat. Bilal: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

The cover of the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Book

Sapiens

A screen grab from the Refugee Project interactive map of refugee migration from 1975 to 2015

Website

The Refugee Project

Grace Kim presenting her TED talk on how cohousing can make us happier

Video

How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)

The cover of the DVD for Waking Life, an exploration of the boundary between sleep and being awake

Film

Waking Life

Website

Democracy Now!

The cover of the DVD of the film The Prophet, based on the book by Khalil Gibran and starring Salma Hayek and Liam Neeson

Film

The Prophet (film)

David Autor presenting his TED talk on whether automation will take away all our jobs

Video

Will automation take away all our jobs?

An infographic showing the most spoken languages of the world and the countries in which they're spoken

Infographic

A World of Languages

The cover of the book The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

Book

The Prophet

A case of 100 dollar bills, representing perceived success

Blog Post

Success doesn’t make an expert

The cover of Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth

Book

Doughnut Economics

The cover of This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein

Book

This Changes Everything

Website

Ethical Consumer

Paddle Against the Flow by Huck Magazine, a book of insights from some of the most inspiring people that Huck Magazine has spoken to over the years

Book

Paddle Against the Flow

The cover of the book The Age of Consent of George Monbiot

Book

The Age of Consent

The cover of the book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

Book

21 lessons for the 21st century

The cover of Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

Book

Guns, Germs and Steel

The cover of the DVD for The Animatrix, a set of short films detailing the back story to The Matrix

Film

The Animatrix

The cover of Postcapitalism by Paul Mason

Book

Postcapitalism