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 align with this ethos is to choose goodness. To find fault with its foundations is a clear warning sign of an affinity for harm, control, or willful indifference.

This is The Good Work.

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

That quiet dread you feel about our future isn't just in your head. It's the rational response to a world where our economy, our politics, and even our information systems have been captured by a narrow agenda of greed and division. The old maps are failing because they were not made for the world we now inhabit.

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

A New Compass for a New World.

Our mission is to establish the ethos of The Good Work as the global standard for ethical living, so that all sentient creatures can identify as genuinely "good" or be forced to admit they harbor an ill intent they refuse to shed. We begin by building a community of the coherent, those willing to hold themselves and others to this necessary standard.

The Library of a Movement

  • The Good Work: A Guide to Living with Truth and Empathy

    A groundbreaking philosophical toolkit designed to mend our broken moral compass and guide us toward a more coherent, compassionate, and meaningful life in the 21st century and beyond.

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  • The Spark of Defiance: A Primer for the New American Resistance

    A short, explosive primer designed to validate your anxiety, name the oligarchic machine destroying America, and channel your righteous anger into the first courageous step of joining the new resistance.

    The Spark of Defiance by Adam Blak, shown as a hardcover and on a phone screen
  • The Good Work: Field Edition - A Manual for the New American Resistance

    The essential training manual for equipping agents of change with the proven conversational strategies and operational tactics needed to dismantle the authoritarian machine and build a better world.

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