Society’s Compass is Broken.
You Are Not Alone.

On sale 30 September New from Good Work Press

The Humanual: the owner’s manual for being a human.

Five volumes covering everything you were supposed to be taught about running a body, a mind, a set of relationships, and a life, and mostly weren’t. Funny on purpose, fact-checked throughout, and written by someone who has been a human for some time.

  • 1. The Hardwarethe body
  • 2. The Operating Systemthe mind
  • 3. The Passengersother people
  • 4. The Mapthe systems you live inside
  • 5. The Compassmeaning and ethics
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In a world of growing chaos and failing systems, the feeling of being lost is a sign you're paying attention. We are building a new way forward, grounded in truth, empathy, and our shared responsibility for the future.

You can feel that the old ways are failing. The division, the confusion, the exhaustion, these are symptoms of a world operating on broken ethical code. We offer not just a new perspective, but a clear standard for what it means to be a good person in a complex world. This is the baseline for living with truth and empathy. To live by this ethos is to choose goodness. The line it draws is drawn by conduct, not by agreement: deceive, dominate, or shrug at needless suffering and you are on the far side of it, whatever you say you believe.

This is The Good Work.

Find Your True North
A single point of light fanning out into a constellation of connected nodes: one person sparking a network

That quiet dread you feel about the future isn’t just in your head. Work, news, money and the machines we are building are all changing at once, and nobody handed out instructions. We are about to teach machines how to be good. It would help if we agreed on what that means. The old maps were not made for this world.

See the Blueprint
Aerial view of neighbours tending a community garden that fills a city block between rows of houses

A New Compass for a New World.

Common decency, written down. The Accord is a short standard any mind can keep and be measured against: spare needless suffering, tell the truth with care, respect every mind, use power and freedom with restraint, repair what you break, and leave the world better than you found it. Disagreeing is a conversation. Cruelty is a line. Everyone who keeps it is welcome, whoever and wherever they are.

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Earlier writing, 2025