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Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber investigates why paid work can feel socially unnecessary, and what that feeling reveals about bureaucracy, status, and power.
Worth Reading
Worth Reading
Independent reading selections for creativity, craft, curiosity, and meaning.
Worth Reading is AuthZ’s shelf of independent reading selections, not a collection of literary essays. We choose books that help people create, develop their craft, follow their curiosity, or find language for questions that matter to them. Each note explains what a book might make possible in a reader’s life.
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Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb distinguishes systems that break under stress from those that withstand it—and those that can benefit from variation and stress.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari’s brisk, ambitious history connects evolution, culture, power, and technology—and gives readers large questions to carry into more particular books.