TOP Lockdown Distractions

Aotearoa’s lockdown continues, and some people have got a bit more time on their hands. Others haven't but are still looking for distractions from their new work-from-home life, their essential work and its new challenges, or the family being so close all the time.

We asked some TOP supporters for their favourite TOP-adjacent books, videos & podcast picks to take our minds off things, learn and challenge our thinking while we’re at home. Here's a list of things we think you’ll find interesting. 

While we don't endorse all of the views contained in this content, they’re useful perspectives - as always, no one expert has access to the full truth but it is out there in amongst the fray... Enjoy!

BOOKS

• Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman 
• Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth 
• Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari 
• The New Zealand Project, Max Harris 
• Vanishing Nature: Facing New Zealand’s Biodiversity Crisis, Marie Brown 
• Pennies from Heaven, Jess Berentson-Shaw 
• Out of the Wreckage, George Monbiot 
• More from Less, Andrew McAfee 
• Scarcity, Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir 
• Rules for Revolutionaries, Becky Bond & Zack Exley 
• Generation Rent, Shamubeel Eaqub 
• A Matter of Fact:Talking Truth in a Post Truth World, Jess Berentson-Shaw 
• Freakonomics, Stephen J. Dubner & Steven D. Levitt

VIDEOS

• TED: How economic inequality harms societies
• The rules of the game must change
• In a Land of Plenty (NZ)
• Someone Else’s Country (NZ)
• 2040: The Regeneration 
• Manufacturing Consent
• TVNZ: What Next
• The Economist: How an obsession with home ownership can ruin the economy 
• TED: The dirty secret of capitalism - and a new way forward 
• TED: Do Schools Kill Creativity? 
• TED: Everything You Know About Addiction is Wrong 
• Bryan Bruce interviews Susan St John on Coronavirus 

PODCASTS

• Seeds 
• Against The Rules
• Revisionist History
• Drilled
• Freakonomics
• Making Sense with Sam Harris 
• The Aotearoa History Show
• Pitchfork Economics
• The Knowledge Project
• Two Cents’ Worth
• This Climate Business