Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“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 ”

“i read this magnificent book called sapiens ”

“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 ”

“i read sapiens by uval harari ”

“you all know harari the israeli born historian with sapiens sees the irony of this clearly ”

“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 ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“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 ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 11s

“to borrow a term from uval harari the author of sapiens ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s

“the book sapiens was all about humans are people of narrative right ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“number one is sapiens um you if you're a product person you have to understand ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“another book that you know just the canonical the canonical book that i often recommend is sapiens ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“i also recently read sapiens by a guy named harari which is just phenomenal ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“i read sap sapient several times ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s

“sapiens you've all harari's book of sort of the meaning of life and understanding the big picture ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“and when i read sapiens this book i have here language was so central ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“you've all know harari who wrote sapiens who i've had on the podcast ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“in the book sapiens the author hypothesizes that hunter gatherers you know we're talking pre civilization worked something like thirty hours a week ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 8s

“i'm rereading sapiens again because i love that book so much ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s

“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 ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 8s

“the book sapiens kinda goes through this a lot about how humans need to self organise ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“uval noah harari's book sapiens he argues that our societies are almost entirely constructed around stories ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 9s

“and to to bridge that to this other book sapiens have you read sapiens ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“you read sapiens what what made humans that were weaker slower et cetera ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“sapiens a brief history of humankind ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s

“highlights from fooled by randomness sapiens priceless in a bunch of other books ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“sapiens by uval noah harari ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s

“braviews of the books sapiens poor charlie's almanac influence and man's search for meaning among others ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s

“fooled my randomness sapiens priceless in a bunch of other books ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“he wrote sapiens homelands and uh twenty one rules for the twenty first century ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“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 ”