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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari · 2011
Mentioned 43 times across 20 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline43 mentions
20182026
Where it's mentioned
2026
Blue Tsunami: Dems’ Next Move, Wall Street Reax, and Guest Amy Klobuchar
Pivot · Nov 2026
“I was as you know, I've been listening to the Yuvel Harari Sapiens book and one of the chapters at the end is about uh capitalism”
Zuck's AI Safety Pitch, Canada Turns to Europe, and Kash Patel on Bestiality
Pivot · Sep 2026
“Juvel Harari's Sapiens, uh, and I'm a huge fan of his. And Uh for a while Tech loved that book. A lot of them were like, have you read Sapiens”
A Storytelling Masterclass with Will Storr (NBI Vault)
The Next Big Idea · Sep 2026
“said in Sapiens and other and I think referencing other people's work, there's a limit to how many there's a Dunbar number”
Stop Waiting for the Perfect Moment, It Never Comes | Kier Gaines
The School of Greatness · Sep 2026
“I read this magnificent book called Sapiens”
Can Democracy Survive the AI Revolution?
The Next Big Idea · Aug 2026
“you've probably heard of his first book, Sapiens, which, along with his later books, Homodeus and Twenty One Lessons for the Twenty First Century, sold over 40 million copies”
How Do I Finish Meaningful Projects? | Monday Advice
Deep Questions with Cal Newport · Aug 2026
“I read Sapiens by Uval Harari”
Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse
The Ezra Klein Show · Aug 2026
“You all know Harari, the Israeli born historian with sapiens. sees the Irony of this clearly”
Why We Crave Gurus: A Skeptic's Reckoning With Belief, Bitcoin, and Burning Man | Vikram Gandhi
10% Happier with Dan Harris · Jul 2026
“You know, there is a line from uh what's the author of Sapien's name? Noah Yuval Herara, yeah”
Communication and how to use it to create opportunity in your career (Day 5) | Open to Work
Squiggly Careers · Jun 2026
“So in Sapiens, which is another great book people should read, a brief history of of humankind”
#1260 Émile Torres: The Risks of AI and Climate Change
The Dissenter · May 2026
“I am not a big fan of his work. Me neither. Me neither, but particularly Sapiens. I mean it's a really bad book”
The Case for Speechmaking in the Age of Doomscrolling
The Next Big Idea · May 2026
“it reminds me of you've all know Harari's language in sapiens in subsequent books about how nations and companies and are are are fictions”
Yuval Noah Harari on Donald Trump’s Core Delusion
The Ezra Klein Show · May 2026
“I think if you look across his mega best-selling books, like Sapiens and Homodeus, you've all know Harari really has one major topic”
WW3 Expert: This Could Trigger Global Starvation
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · May 2026
“But I mean you only if you read the book Sapiens and understood that humans got here because we had a remarkable ability to believe in stories”
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Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques · Apr 2026
“I mean, Sapiens, that book talks about storytelling is as important to our growth and progress as a species as tools”
#469 — Escaping an Anti-Human Future
Making Sense with Sam Harris · Apr 2026
“Yuval Harari from who's the author of Sapiens has here”
From the Archive: Yuval Noah Harari on The Story Behind Everything
The James Altucher Show · Apr 2026
“So I have Yoval Harreri with me, who is the author of Bill Gates' favorite book, Sapiens, and one of the highest recommended books by Mark Zuckerberg, Sapiens”
#1237 Timothy Winegard - The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
The Dissenter · Apr 2026
“uh, Novo, Sapiens”
1143: How to Build a Career that AI Can’t Replace with Aneesh Raman
How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Apr 2026
“My favorites hit at a certain moment in life that sort of like hits me deep as it relates to this conversation, sapiens. I read that in August 2023. you know, GPT had gone global the prior year, and it is a brief history of humankind”
TIP803: How Economics and Art Shape Better Investors w/ Kyle Grieve
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network · Mar 2026
“he wrote the book Sapiens, which eventually became the most read anthropology book that was ever written”
No.1 Christianity Expert: The Truth About Christianity! The Case For Jesus (Historian's Proof)
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Mar 2026
“I think about um Yvel No uh Yeah, Harare. In his book Sapiens, where he says that the real defining trait of our species versus other species was our ability to collaborate”
2025
AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Nov 2025
“to borrow a term from Uval Harari, the author of Sapiens”
I Turned $1M into $2.3B (Then Blew It Up and Rebuilt)
My First Million · Jun 2025
“The book Sapiens was all about humans are people of narrative, right”
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jun 2025
“number one is sapiens ... I read it before it was called Sapiens. It was called”
2024
Meta’s Head of Product (and 29th employee) on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, why PMs are like conductors, and more | Naomi Gleit
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Oct 2024
“another book that you know, just the canonical the canonical book that I often recommend is sapiens”
#744: Jocko Willink and Sebastian Junger
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2024
“I also recently read Sapiens by a guy named Harari, which is just phenomenal”
Scott Galloway: Do This In Your 20s To Make Millions In Your 30s
My First Million · May 2024
“I read Sap Sapient several times”
#730: Reed Hastings, Co-Founder of Netflix — How to Cultivate High Performance, The Art of Farming for Dissent, Favorite Failures, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
“Sapiens, you've all Harari's book of sort of The meaning of life and understanding the big picture”
Yuval Noah Harari: The Urgent Warning They Hope You Ignore, “More War Is Coming”, Yuval’s Chilling Future Predictions!
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Jan 2024
“And when I read Sapiens. this book I have here. Language was so central”
2023
#705: Dr. Willoughby Britton — The Hidden Risks of Meditation, Overlaps with Psychedelic Risks, Harm Reduction Strategies, How to Choose a Retreat, Near-Death Experiences, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
“you've all know Harari who wrote Sapiens, who I've had on the podcast”
This Hedge Fund Manager Got Away With Insider Trading… Then Made Billions
My First Million · Oct 2023
“in the book Sapiens, the author hypothesizes that hunter gatherers you know, we're talking pre civilization, worked something like thirty hours a week”
Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher (2017)
The Knowledge Project · Jul 2023
“I'm rereading Sapiens again because I love that book so much”
2022
Bryan Johnson: How He Is Getting Biologically Younger, Selling His Company for $800 Million, and More
My First Million · Nov 2022
“In one of his books he was like, you know, like hunter and gatherers work only thirty hours a week and that kinda seems like an ideal number. Is there anything like just sapiens, no homo, okay”
How Raoul Pal 10X-ed His Money with Crypto and Retired to the Beach
My First Million · Mar 2022
“the book Sapiens kinda goes through this a lot about How Humans need to self organise”
2021
Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
How I Built This with Guy Raz · Nov 2021
“Uval Noah Harari's book Sapiens, he argues that Our societies are almost entirely constructed. Around stories”
#212 - Why You Shouldn't Be A Slave to a 40 Hour Work Week
My First Million · Aug 2021
“And to to bridge that to this other book, Sapiens, have you read Sapiens”
#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
The Knowledge Project · Jan 2021
“you read sapiens, what what made humans that were weaker, slower, et cetera”
2020
#477: Yuval Noah Harari on The Story of Sapiens, Forging the Skill of Awareness, and The Power of Disguised Books
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2020
“Sapiens, a brief history of humankind”
#446: Blake Mycoskie — TOMS, The Hoffman Process, Conscious Uncoupling, and Psychedelics
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2020
“highlights from Fooled by Randomness, Sapiens. Priceless in a bunch of other books”
#442: Tribe of Mentors — Naval Ravikant, Susan Cain, and Yuval Noah Harari
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2020
“Sapiens by Uval Noah Harari”
#439: Tools of Titans — Derek Sivers, BJ Miller, and Christopher Sommer
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2020
“Braviews of the books Sapiens, Poor Charlie's Almanac, Influence, and Man's Search for Meaning, among others”
#427: Michael Lewis — Inside the Mind of the Iconic Writer
The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2020
“Fooled My Randomness, Sapiens. Priceless in a bunch of other books”
2019
E24: Tom Bilyeu - From Zero Drive to a Net Worth of $400m
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Feb 2019
“He wrote Sapiens, Homelands and uh Twenty One Rules for the Twenty First Century”
2018
Bonus: The 10 Commandments of Startup Success w/guest host Tim Ferriss
Masters of Scale · Feb 2018
“I would say most recently Uh sapiens. has had me thinking a lot about What the evolution of humanity and what our future looks like”