
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
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“"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book I've read since "The Rational Optimist" (@mattwridley). Both orthogonal and deep thinkers. | 13. Sapiens 35 years A delightfully wonderful book. Just as "Brief history of time", Yuval skillfully simplified the journey of our civilization. Making me fall in love with the art of teaching, yet again. | 3 books I recommended on Pomp's podcast. These books help you understand how our world works (or doesn’t work). This understanding is essential for success. | 6. Sapiens A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind Vol. 1 + The Pillars of Civilization Vol. 2 The illustrated version of the book Sapiens. Stunningly done! Highly recommended | @JJFilson Great book and agree. But can wealth just be created by desire It may not be a zero sum game but aren’t there some constraints If we keep creating more and more wealth mechanisms, can we just buy more things with no downside | @Savo_Heleta Just a little quote from Yuval Harari's Sapiens, one of the best books I read this year. Someone should have given it to you for Christmas, if you are prepared to look beyond your Fanon blinkers. | @ThuesenMartin I love this book. I've read it as a book and listened on audio. I need to read it several more times to take it all in! | @Trader_Calm Yeah, of the few books that you can feel yourself getting smarter as you read them :) I would put Taleb's Incerto series also in these category of books. | @chronic_trader I tried but I cant do ten and there isn't enough room for a full list so books Ive recently enjoyed are: Sapiens Homo Deus The Silk Road The Lean Start Up Trust me Im lying Conspiracy Chaos Monkeys David Bowie A life Why Minksy Matters The Sheltering Sky The Undoing Project | @joy_in_words Book Sapiens, Movie Aviator | A grand theory of humanity. | A great book about how we’ve evolved and why we have anxiety. | A previous favorite. | American Like Me by @AmericaFerrera & Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind @harari_yuval | Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share. | Day 3: I’ve been nominated by @filadin to post covers of 7 books that I love with no explanations or reviews. Each time I post I will ask another to take up the challenge. Today I nominate @bluebirds4418 | Have you read the book, Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari Great read. Here's his @TEDTalks on the topic. Mind=blown: | I am almost halfway through my second reading of this thought provoking book. Interesting how much l had not taken in the first time l read the book. | I cannot recommend Yuval Harari's book, Sapiens, enough. Here's my favourite bit about the need for stories. | I couldn?t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari?s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative?that?s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I couldn’t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari’s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative—that’s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I just love the style of his writing. | I read 95 books in 2016. Best nonfiction: Sapiens, Saving Capitalism, The New Jim Crow, The Social Animal, Story (by McKee). | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished ?Guns, Germs, and Steel? and ?Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches?, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that ?truths? are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches”, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that “truths” are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history. | I'm sitting on Miami Beach in the sun reading this excellent book, drinking rosé, listening to cheesy 90s R&B. 2016 has a kiss in its tail | It explains human behavior and why we are the way we are in human civilization from soup to nuts. And I’ve read it now a couple of times. It’s a pretty astonishing book. | It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical. It’s written by Yuval Noah Harari. I heard him speak and it’s fascinating. It’s about humanity and how we came to be. It’s a book that I carried around for a while but it’s like 500 pages. | I’m going to give Sapiens over and over again to everyone I know. | I’ve said it before and I’ll definitely say it in the future, the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is truly mindblowing. It’s changed the way I look at almost everything. I can’t endorse it enough. | Love this book still | One of the books I’ve given most as a gift. | One of the most talked about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason. Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socioanthropological history. | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today?s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today’s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | Q: Are there any books you haven’t mentioned that you feel would make your reading list P.A.: I would also include the following books: The Emperor of All Maladies, Where Men Win Glory, The President’s Club, The Most Important Thing, Sapiens, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, 10 Percent Happier, The Rommel Papers, King of the World, The Corner and Good Calories, Bad Calories. | Really enjoying “Sapiens” by yuval_noah_harari It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species. | Really great book | Some books should be read twice (or more). This is one of them. On my second reading now. | The brainy book I seem to be sharing or talking about the most lately. | Unbelievably good book. Jaw dropping from the first word to the last. Best £9.99 I've spent in ages. | Wonderful book! Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Francis Bacon said history can make us wise. Here is a history of the whole human race! | “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari Great book!”
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“"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book I've read since "The Rational Optimist" (@mattwridley). Both orthogonal and deep thinkers. | 13. Sapiens 35 years A delightfully wonderful book. Just as "Brief history of time", Yuval skillfully simplified the journey of our civilization. Making me fall in love with the art of teaching, yet again. | 3 books I recommended on Pomp's podcast. These books help you understand how our world works (or doesn’t work). This understanding is essential for success. | 6. Sapiens A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind Vol. 1 + The Pillars of Civilization Vol. 2 The illustrated version of the book Sapiens. Stunningly done! Highly recommended | @JJFilson Great book and agree. But can wealth just be created by desire It may not be a zero sum game but aren’t there some constraints If we keep creating more and more wealth mechanisms, can we just buy more things with no downside | @Savo_Heleta Just a little quote from Yuval Harari's Sapiens, one of the best books I read this year. Someone should have given it to you for Christmas, if you are prepared to look beyond your Fanon blinkers. | @ThuesenMartin I love this book. I've read it as a book and listened on audio. I need to read it several more times to take it all in! | @Trader_Calm Yeah, of the few books that you can feel yourself getting smarter as you read them :) I would put Taleb's Incerto series also in these category of books. | @chronic_trader I tried but I cant do ten and there isn't enough room for a full list so books Ive recently enjoyed are: Sapiens Homo Deus The Silk Road The Lean Start Up Trust me Im lying Conspiracy Chaos Monkeys David Bowie A life Why Minksy Matters The Sheltering Sky The Undoing Project | @joy_in_words Book Sapiens, Movie Aviator | A grand theory of humanity. | A great book about how we’ve evolved and why we have anxiety. | A previous favorite. | American Like Me by @AmericaFerrera & Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind @harari_yuval | Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share. | Day 3: I’ve been nominated by @filadin to post covers of 7 books that I love with no explanations or reviews. Each time I post I will ask another to take up the challenge. Today I nominate @bluebirds4418 | Have you read the book, Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari Great read. Here's his @TEDTalks on the topic. Mind=blown: | I am almost halfway through my second reading of this thought provoking book. Interesting how much l had not taken in the first time l read the book. | I cannot recommend Yuval Harari's book, Sapiens, enough. Here's my favourite bit about the need for stories. | I couldn?t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari?s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative?that?s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I couldn’t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari’s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative—that’s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I just love the style of his writing. | I read 95 books in 2016. Best nonfiction: Sapiens, Saving Capitalism, The New Jim Crow, The Social Animal, Story (by McKee). | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished ?Guns, Germs, and Steel? and ?Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches?, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that ?truths? are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches”, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that “truths” are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history. | I'm sitting on Miami Beach in the sun reading this excellent book, drinking rosé, listening to cheesy 90s R&B. 2016 has a kiss in its tail | It explains human behavior and why we are the way we are in human civilization from soup to nuts. And I’ve read it now a couple of times. It’s a pretty astonishing book. | It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical. It’s written by Yuval Noah Harari. I heard him speak and it’s fascinating. It’s about humanity and how we came to be. It’s a book that I carried around for a while but it’s like 500 pages. | I’m going to give Sapiens over and over again to everyone I know. | I’ve said it before and I’ll definitely say it in the future, the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is truly mindblowing. It’s changed the way I look at almost everything. I can’t endorse it enough. | Love this book still | One of the books I’ve given most as a gift. | One of the most talked about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason. Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socioanthropological history. | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today?s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today’s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | Q: Are there any books you haven’t mentioned that you feel would make your reading list P.A.: I would also include the following books: The Emperor of All Maladies, Where Men Win Glory, The President’s Club, The Most Important Thing, Sapiens, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, 10 Percent Happier, The Rommel Papers, King of the World, The Corner and Good Calories, Bad Calories. | Really enjoying “Sapiens” by yuval_noah_harari It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species. | Really great book | Some books should be read twice (or more). This is one of them. On my second reading now. | The brainy book I seem to be sharing or talking about the most lately. | Unbelievably good book. Jaw dropping from the first word to the last. Best £9.99 I've spent in ages. | Wonderful book! Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Francis Bacon said history can make us wise. Here is a history of the whole human race! | “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari Great book!”
Source →“"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book I've read since "The Rational Optimist" (@mattwridley). Both orthogonal and deep thinkers. | 13. Sapiens 35 years A delightfully wonderful book. Just as "Brief history of time", Yuval skillfully simplified the journey of our civilization. Making me fall in love with the art of teaching, yet again. | 3 books I recommended on Pomp's podcast. These books help you understand how our world works (or doesn’t work). This understanding is essential for success. | 6. Sapiens A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind Vol. 1 + The Pillars of Civilization Vol. 2 The illustrated version of the book Sapiens. Stunningly done! Highly recommended | @JJFilson Great book and agree. But can wealth just be created by desire It may not be a zero sum game but aren’t there some constraints If we keep creating more and more wealth mechanisms, can we just buy more things with no downside | @Savo_Heleta Just a little quote from Yuval Harari's Sapiens, one of the best books I read this year. Someone should have given it to you for Christmas, if you are prepared to look beyond your Fanon blinkers. | @ThuesenMartin I love this book. I've read it as a book and listened on audio. I need to read it several more times to take it all in! | @Trader_Calm Yeah, of the few books that you can feel yourself getting smarter as you read them :) I would put Taleb's Incerto series also in these category of books. | @chronic_trader I tried but I cant do ten and there isn't enough room for a full list so books Ive recently enjoyed are: Sapiens Homo Deus The Silk Road The Lean Start Up Trust me Im lying Conspiracy Chaos Monkeys David Bowie A life Why Minksy Matters The Sheltering Sky The Undoing Project | @joy_in_words Book Sapiens, Movie Aviator | A grand theory of humanity. | A great book about how we’ve evolved and why we have anxiety. | A previous favorite. | American Like Me by @AmericaFerrera & Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind @harari_yuval | Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share. | Day 3: I’ve been nominated by @filadin to post covers of 7 books that I love with no explanations or reviews. Each time I post I will ask another to take up the challenge. Today I nominate @bluebirds4418 | Have you read the book, Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari Great read. Here's his @TEDTalks on the topic. Mind=blown: | I am almost halfway through my second reading of this thought provoking book. Interesting how much l had not taken in the first time l read the book. | I cannot recommend Yuval Harari's book, Sapiens, enough. Here's my favourite bit about the need for stories. | I couldn?t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari?s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative?that?s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I couldn’t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari’s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative—that’s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I just love the style of his writing. | I read 95 books in 2016. Best nonfiction: Sapiens, Saving Capitalism, The New Jim Crow, The Social Animal, Story (by McKee). | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished ?Guns, Germs, and Steel? and ?Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches?, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that ?truths? are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches”, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that “truths” are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history. | I'm sitting on Miami Beach in the sun reading this excellent book, drinking rosé, listening to cheesy 90s R&B. 2016 has a kiss in its tail | It explains human behavior and why we are the way we are in human civilization from soup to nuts. And I’ve read it now a couple of times. It’s a pretty astonishing book. | It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical. It’s written by Yuval Noah Harari. I heard him speak and it’s fascinating. It’s about humanity and how we came to be. It’s a book that I carried around for a while but it’s like 500 pages. | I’m going to give Sapiens over and over again to everyone I know. | I’ve said it before and I’ll definitely say it in the future, the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is truly mindblowing. It’s changed the way I look at almost everything. I can’t endorse it enough. | Love this book still | One of the books I’ve given most as a gift. | One of the most talked about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason. Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socioanthropological history. | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today?s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today’s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | Q: Are there any books you haven’t mentioned that you feel would make your reading list P.A.: I would also include the following books: The Emperor of All Maladies, Where Men Win Glory, The President’s Club, The Most Important Thing, Sapiens, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, 10 Percent Happier, The Rommel Papers, King of the World, The Corner and Good Calories, Bad Calories. | Really enjoying “Sapiens” by yuval_noah_harari It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species. | Really great book | Some books should be read twice (or more). This is one of them. On my second reading now. | The brainy book I seem to be sharing or talking about the most lately. | Unbelievably good book. Jaw dropping from the first word to the last. Best £9.99 I've spent in ages. | Wonderful book! Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Francis Bacon said history can make us wise. Here is a history of the whole human race! | “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari Great book!”
Source →Author of Atomic Habits
“"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book I've read since "The Rational Optimist" (@mattwridley). Both orthogonal and deep thinkers. | 13. Sapiens 35 years A delightfully wonderful book. Just as "Brief history of time", Yuval skillfully simplified the journey of our civilization. Making me fall in love with the art of teaching, yet again. | 3 books I recommended on Pomp's podcast. These books help you understand how our world works (or doesn’t work). This understanding is essential for success. | 6. Sapiens A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind Vol. 1 + The Pillars of Civilization Vol. 2 The illustrated version of the book Sapiens. Stunningly done! Highly recommended | @JJFilson Great book and agree. But can wealth just be created by desire It may not be a zero sum game but aren’t there some constraints If we keep creating more and more wealth mechanisms, can we just buy more things with no downside | @Savo_Heleta Just a little quote from Yuval Harari's Sapiens, one of the best books I read this year. Someone should have given it to you for Christmas, if you are prepared to look beyond your Fanon blinkers. | @ThuesenMartin I love this book. I've read it as a book and listened on audio. I need to read it several more times to take it all in! | @Trader_Calm Yeah, of the few books that you can feel yourself getting smarter as you read them :) I would put Taleb's Incerto series also in these category of books. | @chronic_trader I tried but I cant do ten and there isn't enough room for a full list so books Ive recently enjoyed are: Sapiens Homo Deus The Silk Road The Lean Start Up Trust me Im lying Conspiracy Chaos Monkeys David Bowie A life Why Minksy Matters The Sheltering Sky The Undoing Project | @joy_in_words Book Sapiens, Movie Aviator | A grand theory of humanity. | A great book about how we’ve evolved and why we have anxiety. | A previous favorite. | American Like Me by @AmericaFerrera & Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind @harari_yuval | Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share. | Day 3: I’ve been nominated by @filadin to post covers of 7 books that I love with no explanations or reviews. Each time I post I will ask another to take up the challenge. Today I nominate @bluebirds4418 | Have you read the book, Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari Great read. Here's his @TEDTalks on the topic. Mind=blown: | I am almost halfway through my second reading of this thought provoking book. Interesting how much l had not taken in the first time l read the book. | I cannot recommend Yuval Harari's book, Sapiens, enough. Here's my favourite bit about the need for stories. | I couldn?t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari?s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative?that?s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I couldn’t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari’s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative—that’s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I just love the style of his writing. | I read 95 books in 2016. Best nonfiction: Sapiens, Saving Capitalism, The New Jim Crow, The Social Animal, Story (by McKee). | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished ?Guns, Germs, and Steel? and ?Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches?, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that ?truths? are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches”, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that “truths” are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history. | I'm sitting on Miami Beach in the sun reading this excellent book, drinking rosé, listening to cheesy 90s R&B. 2016 has a kiss in its tail | It explains human behavior and why we are the way we are in human civilization from soup to nuts. And I’ve read it now a couple of times. It’s a pretty astonishing book. | It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical. It’s written by Yuval Noah Harari. I heard him speak and it’s fascinating. It’s about humanity and how we came to be. It’s a book that I carried around for a while but it’s like 500 pages. | I’m going to give Sapiens over and over again to everyone I know. | I’ve said it before and I’ll definitely say it in the future, the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is truly mindblowing. It’s changed the way I look at almost everything. I can’t endorse it enough. | Love this book still | One of the books I’ve given most as a gift. | One of the most talked about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason. Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socioanthropological history. | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today?s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today’s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | Q: Are there any books you haven’t mentioned that you feel would make your reading list P.A.: I would also include the following books: The Emperor of All Maladies, Where Men Win Glory, The President’s Club, The Most Important Thing, Sapiens, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, 10 Percent Happier, The Rommel Papers, King of the World, The Corner and Good Calories, Bad Calories. | Really enjoying “Sapiens” by yuval_noah_harari It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species. | Really great book | Some books should be read twice (or more). This is one of them. On my second reading now. | The brainy book I seem to be sharing or talking about the most lately. | Unbelievably good book. Jaw dropping from the first word to the last. Best £9.99 I've spent in ages. | Wonderful book! Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Francis Bacon said history can make us wise. Here is a history of the whole human race! | “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari Great book!”
Source →“"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book I've read since "The Rational Optimist" (@mattwridley). Both orthogonal and deep thinkers. | 13. Sapiens 35 years A delightfully wonderful book. Just as "Brief history of time", Yuval skillfully simplified the journey of our civilization. Making me fall in love with the art of teaching, yet again. | 3 books I recommended on Pomp's podcast. These books help you understand how our world works (or doesn’t work). This understanding is essential for success. | 6. Sapiens A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind Vol. 1 + The Pillars of Civilization Vol. 2 The illustrated version of the book Sapiens. Stunningly done! Highly recommended | @JJFilson Great book and agree. But can wealth just be created by desire It may not be a zero sum game but aren’t there some constraints If we keep creating more and more wealth mechanisms, can we just buy more things with no downside | @Savo_Heleta Just a little quote from Yuval Harari's Sapiens, one of the best books I read this year. Someone should have given it to you for Christmas, if you are prepared to look beyond your Fanon blinkers. | @ThuesenMartin I love this book. I've read it as a book and listened on audio. I need to read it several more times to take it all in! | @Trader_Calm Yeah, of the few books that you can feel yourself getting smarter as you read them :) I would put Taleb's Incerto series also in these category of books. | @chronic_trader I tried but I cant do ten and there isn't enough room for a full list so books Ive recently enjoyed are: Sapiens Homo Deus The Silk Road The Lean Start Up Trust me Im lying Conspiracy Chaos Monkeys David Bowie A life Why Minksy Matters The Sheltering Sky The Undoing Project | @joy_in_words Book Sapiens, Movie Aviator | A grand theory of humanity. | A great book about how we’ve evolved and why we have anxiety. | A previous favorite. | American Like Me by @AmericaFerrera & Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind @harari_yuval | Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share. | Day 3: I’ve been nominated by @filadin to post covers of 7 books that I love with no explanations or reviews. Each time I post I will ask another to take up the challenge. Today I nominate @bluebirds4418 | Have you read the book, Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari Great read. Here's his @TEDTalks on the topic. Mind=blown: | I am almost halfway through my second reading of this thought provoking book. Interesting how much l had not taken in the first time l read the book. | I cannot recommend Yuval Harari's book, Sapiens, enough. Here's my favourite bit about the need for stories. | I couldn?t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari?s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative?that?s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I couldn’t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari’s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative—that’s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I just love the style of his writing. | I read 95 books in 2016. Best nonfiction: Sapiens, Saving Capitalism, The New Jim Crow, The Social Animal, Story (by McKee). | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished ?Guns, Germs, and Steel? and ?Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches?, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that ?truths? are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches”, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that “truths” are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history. | I'm sitting on Miami Beach in the sun reading this excellent book, drinking rosé, listening to cheesy 90s R&B. 2016 has a kiss in its tail | It explains human behavior and why we are the way we are in human civilization from soup to nuts. And I’ve read it now a couple of times. It’s a pretty astonishing book. | It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical. It’s written by Yuval Noah Harari. I heard him speak and it’s fascinating. It’s about humanity and how we came to be. It’s a book that I carried around for a while but it’s like 500 pages. | I’m going to give Sapiens over and over again to everyone I know. | I’ve said it before and I’ll definitely say it in the future, the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is truly mindblowing. It’s changed the way I look at almost everything. I can’t endorse it enough. | Love this book still | One of the books I’ve given most as a gift. | One of the most talked about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason. Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socioanthropological history. | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today?s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today’s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | Q: Are there any books you haven’t mentioned that you feel would make your reading list P.A.: I would also include the following books: The Emperor of All Maladies, Where Men Win Glory, The President’s Club, The Most Important Thing, Sapiens, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, 10 Percent Happier, The Rommel Papers, King of the World, The Corner and Good Calories, Bad Calories. | Really enjoying “Sapiens” by yuval_noah_harari It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species. | Really great book | Some books should be read twice (or more). This is one of them. On my second reading now. | The brainy book I seem to be sharing or talking about the most lately. | Unbelievably good book. Jaw dropping from the first word to the last. Best £9.99 I've spent in ages. | Wonderful book! Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Francis Bacon said history can make us wise. Here is a history of the whole human race! | “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari Great book!”
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“"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book I've read since "The Rational Optimist" (@mattwridley). Both orthogonal and deep thinkers. | 13. Sapiens 35 years A delightfully wonderful book. Just as "Brief history of time", Yuval skillfully simplified the journey of our civilization. Making me fall in love with the art of teaching, yet again. | 3 books I recommended on Pomp's podcast. These books help you understand how our world works (or doesn’t work). This understanding is essential for success. | 6. Sapiens A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind Vol. 1 + The Pillars of Civilization Vol. 2 The illustrated version of the book Sapiens. Stunningly done! Highly recommended | @JJFilson Great book and agree. But can wealth just be created by desire It may not be a zero sum game but aren’t there some constraints If we keep creating more and more wealth mechanisms, can we just buy more things with no downside | @Savo_Heleta Just a little quote from Yuval Harari's Sapiens, one of the best books I read this year. Someone should have given it to you for Christmas, if you are prepared to look beyond your Fanon blinkers. | @ThuesenMartin I love this book. I've read it as a book and listened on audio. I need to read it several more times to take it all in! | @Trader_Calm Yeah, of the few books that you can feel yourself getting smarter as you read them :) I would put Taleb's Incerto series also in these category of books. | @chronic_trader I tried but I cant do ten and there isn't enough room for a full list so books Ive recently enjoyed are: Sapiens Homo Deus The Silk Road The Lean Start Up Trust me Im lying Conspiracy Chaos Monkeys David Bowie A life Why Minksy Matters The Sheltering Sky The Undoing Project | @joy_in_words Book Sapiens, Movie Aviator | A grand theory of humanity. | A great book about how we’ve evolved and why we have anxiety. | A previous favorite. | American Like Me by @AmericaFerrera & Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind @harari_yuval | Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share. | Day 3: I’ve been nominated by @filadin to post covers of 7 books that I love with no explanations or reviews. Each time I post I will ask another to take up the challenge. Today I nominate @bluebirds4418 | Have you read the book, Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari Great read. Here's his @TEDTalks on the topic. Mind=blown: | I am almost halfway through my second reading of this thought provoking book. Interesting how much l had not taken in the first time l read the book. | I cannot recommend Yuval Harari's book, Sapiens, enough. Here's my favourite bit about the need for stories. | I couldn?t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari?s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative?that?s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I couldn’t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari’s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative—that’s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I just love the style of his writing. | I read 95 books in 2016. Best nonfiction: Sapiens, Saving Capitalism, The New Jim Crow, The Social Animal, Story (by McKee). | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished ?Guns, Germs, and Steel? and ?Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches?, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that ?truths? are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches”, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that “truths” are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history. | I'm sitting on Miami Beach in the sun reading this excellent book, drinking rosé, listening to cheesy 90s R&B. 2016 has a kiss in its tail | It explains human behavior and why we are the way we are in human civilization from soup to nuts. And I’ve read it now a couple of times. It’s a pretty astonishing book. | It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical. It’s written by Yuval Noah Harari. I heard him speak and it’s fascinating. It’s about humanity and how we came to be. It’s a book that I carried around for a while but it’s like 500 pages. | I’m going to give Sapiens over and over again to everyone I know. | I’ve said it before and I’ll definitely say it in the future, the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is truly mindblowing. It’s changed the way I look at almost everything. I can’t endorse it enough. | Love this book still | One of the books I’ve given most as a gift. | One of the most talked about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason. Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socioanthropological history. | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today?s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today’s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | Q: Are there any books you haven’t mentioned that you feel would make your reading list P.A.: I would also include the following books: The Emperor of All Maladies, Where Men Win Glory, The President’s Club, The Most Important Thing, Sapiens, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, 10 Percent Happier, The Rommel Papers, King of the World, The Corner and Good Calories, Bad Calories. | Really enjoying “Sapiens” by yuval_noah_harari It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species. | Really great book | Some books should be read twice (or more). This is one of them. On my second reading now. | The brainy book I seem to be sharing or talking about the most lately. | Unbelievably good book. Jaw dropping from the first word to the last. Best £9.99 I've spent in ages. | Wonderful book! Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Francis Bacon said history can make us wise. Here is a history of the whole human race! | “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari Great book!”
Source →“"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book I've read since "The Rational Optimist" (@mattwridley). Both orthogonal and deep thinkers. | 13. Sapiens 35 years A delightfully wonderful book. Just as "Brief history of time", Yuval skillfully simplified the journey of our civilization. Making me fall in love with the art of teaching, yet again. | 3 books I recommended on Pomp's podcast. These books help you understand how our world works (or doesn’t work). This understanding is essential for success. | 6. Sapiens A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind Vol. 1 + The Pillars of Civilization Vol. 2 The illustrated version of the book Sapiens. Stunningly done! Highly recommended | @JJFilson Great book and agree. But can wealth just be created by desire It may not be a zero sum game but aren’t there some constraints If we keep creating more and more wealth mechanisms, can we just buy more things with no downside | @Savo_Heleta Just a little quote from Yuval Harari's Sapiens, one of the best books I read this year. Someone should have given it to you for Christmas, if you are prepared to look beyond your Fanon blinkers. | @ThuesenMartin I love this book. I've read it as a book and listened on audio. I need to read it several more times to take it all in! | @Trader_Calm Yeah, of the few books that you can feel yourself getting smarter as you read them :) I would put Taleb's Incerto series also in these category of books. | @chronic_trader I tried but I cant do ten and there isn't enough room for a full list so books Ive recently enjoyed are: Sapiens Homo Deus The Silk Road The Lean Start Up Trust me Im lying Conspiracy Chaos Monkeys David Bowie A life Why Minksy Matters The Sheltering Sky The Undoing Project | @joy_in_words Book Sapiens, Movie Aviator | A grand theory of humanity. | A great book about how we’ve evolved and why we have anxiety. | A previous favorite. | American Like Me by @AmericaFerrera & Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind @harari_yuval | Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share. | Day 3: I’ve been nominated by @filadin to post covers of 7 books that I love with no explanations or reviews. Each time I post I will ask another to take up the challenge. Today I nominate @bluebirds4418 | Have you read the book, Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari Great read. Here's his @TEDTalks on the topic. Mind=blown: | I am almost halfway through my second reading of this thought provoking book. Interesting how much l had not taken in the first time l read the book. | I cannot recommend Yuval Harari's book, Sapiens, enough. Here's my favourite bit about the need for stories. | I couldn?t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari?s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative?that?s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I couldn’t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari’s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative—that’s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I just love the style of his writing. | I read 95 books in 2016. Best nonfiction: Sapiens, Saving Capitalism, The New Jim Crow, The Social Animal, Story (by McKee). | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished ?Guns, Germs, and Steel? and ?Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches?, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that ?truths? are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches”, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that “truths” are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history. | I'm sitting on Miami Beach in the sun reading this excellent book, drinking rosé, listening to cheesy 90s R&B. 2016 has a kiss in its tail | It explains human behavior and why we are the way we are in human civilization from soup to nuts. And I’ve read it now a couple of times. It’s a pretty astonishing book. | It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical. It’s written by Yuval Noah Harari. I heard him speak and it’s fascinating. It’s about humanity and how we came to be. It’s a book that I carried around for a while but it’s like 500 pages. | I’m going to give Sapiens over and over again to everyone I know. | I’ve said it before and I’ll definitely say it in the future, the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is truly mindblowing. It’s changed the way I look at almost everything. I can’t endorse it enough. | Love this book still | One of the books I’ve given most as a gift. | One of the most talked about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason. Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socioanthropological history. | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today?s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today’s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | Q: Are there any books you haven’t mentioned that you feel would make your reading list P.A.: I would also include the following books: The Emperor of All Maladies, Where Men Win Glory, The President’s Club, The Most Important Thing, Sapiens, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, 10 Percent Happier, The Rommel Papers, King of the World, The Corner and Good Calories, Bad Calories. | Really enjoying “Sapiens” by yuval_noah_harari It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species. | Really great book | Some books should be read twice (or more). This is one of them. On my second reading now. | The brainy book I seem to be sharing or talking about the most lately. | Unbelievably good book. Jaw dropping from the first word to the last. Best £9.99 I've spent in ages. | Wonderful book! Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Francis Bacon said history can make us wise. Here is a history of the whole human race! | “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari Great book!”
Source →“"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book I've read since "The Rational Optimist" (@mattwridley). Both orthogonal and deep thinkers. | 13. Sapiens 35 years A delightfully wonderful book. Just as "Brief history of time", Yuval skillfully simplified the journey of our civilization. Making me fall in love with the art of teaching, yet again. | 3 books I recommended on Pomp's podcast. These books help you understand how our world works (or doesn’t work). This understanding is essential for success. | 6. Sapiens A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind Vol. 1 + The Pillars of Civilization Vol. 2 The illustrated version of the book Sapiens. Stunningly done! Highly recommended | @JJFilson Great book and agree. But can wealth just be created by desire It may not be a zero sum game but aren’t there some constraints If we keep creating more and more wealth mechanisms, can we just buy more things with no downside | @Savo_Heleta Just a little quote from Yuval Harari's Sapiens, one of the best books I read this year. Someone should have given it to you for Christmas, if you are prepared to look beyond your Fanon blinkers. | @ThuesenMartin I love this book. I've read it as a book and listened on audio. I need to read it several more times to take it all in! | @Trader_Calm Yeah, of the few books that you can feel yourself getting smarter as you read them :) I would put Taleb's Incerto series also in these category of books. | @chronic_trader I tried but I cant do ten and there isn't enough room for a full list so books Ive recently enjoyed are: Sapiens Homo Deus The Silk Road The Lean Start Up Trust me Im lying Conspiracy Chaos Monkeys David Bowie A life Why Minksy Matters The Sheltering Sky The Undoing Project | @joy_in_words Book Sapiens, Movie Aviator | A grand theory of humanity. | A great book about how we’ve evolved and why we have anxiety. | A previous favorite. | American Like Me by @AmericaFerrera & Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind @harari_yuval | Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share. | Day 3: I’ve been nominated by @filadin to post covers of 7 books that I love with no explanations or reviews. Each time I post I will ask another to take up the challenge. Today I nominate @bluebirds4418 | Have you read the book, Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari Great read. Here's his @TEDTalks on the topic. Mind=blown: | I am almost halfway through my second reading of this thought provoking book. Interesting how much l had not taken in the first time l read the book. | I cannot recommend Yuval Harari's book, Sapiens, enough. Here's my favourite bit about the need for stories. | I couldn?t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari?s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative?that?s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I couldn’t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari’s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative—that’s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I just love the style of his writing. | I read 95 books in 2016. Best nonfiction: Sapiens, Saving Capitalism, The New Jim Crow, The Social Animal, Story (by McKee). | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished ?Guns, Germs, and Steel? and ?Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches?, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that ?truths? are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches”, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that “truths” are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history. | I'm sitting on Miami Beach in the sun reading this excellent book, drinking rosé, listening to cheesy 90s R&B. 2016 has a kiss in its tail | It explains human behavior and why we are the way we are in human civilization from soup to nuts. And I’ve read it now a couple of times. It’s a pretty astonishing book. | It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical. It’s written by Yuval Noah Harari. I heard him speak and it’s fascinating. It’s about humanity and how we came to be. It’s a book that I carried around for a while but it’s like 500 pages. | I’m going to give Sapiens over and over again to everyone I know. | I’ve said it before and I’ll definitely say it in the future, the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is truly mindblowing. It’s changed the way I look at almost everything. I can’t endorse it enough. | Love this book still | One of the books I’ve given most as a gift. | One of the most talked about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason. Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socioanthropological history. | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today?s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today’s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | Q: Are there any books you haven’t mentioned that you feel would make your reading list P.A.: I would also include the following books: The Emperor of All Maladies, Where Men Win Glory, The President’s Club, The Most Important Thing, Sapiens, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, 10 Percent Happier, The Rommel Papers, King of the World, The Corner and Good Calories, Bad Calories. | Really enjoying “Sapiens” by yuval_noah_harari It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species. | Really great book | Some books should be read twice (or more). This is one of them. On my second reading now. | The brainy book I seem to be sharing or talking about the most lately. | Unbelievably good book. Jaw dropping from the first word to the last. Best £9.99 I've spent in ages. | Wonderful book! Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Francis Bacon said history can make us wise. Here is a history of the whole human race! | “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari Great book!”
Source →“"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book I've read since "The Rational Optimist" (@mattwridley). Both orthogonal and deep thinkers. | 13. Sapiens 35 years A delightfully wonderful book. Just as "Brief history of time", Yuval skillfully simplified the journey of our civilization. Making me fall in love with the art of teaching, yet again. | 3 books I recommended on Pomp's podcast. These books help you understand how our world works (or doesn’t work). This understanding is essential for success. | 6. Sapiens A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind Vol. 1 + The Pillars of Civilization Vol. 2 The illustrated version of the book Sapiens. Stunningly done! Highly recommended | @JJFilson Great book and agree. But can wealth just be created by desire It may not be a zero sum game but aren’t there some constraints If we keep creating more and more wealth mechanisms, can we just buy more things with no downside | @Savo_Heleta Just a little quote from Yuval Harari's Sapiens, one of the best books I read this year. Someone should have given it to you for Christmas, if you are prepared to look beyond your Fanon blinkers. | @ThuesenMartin I love this book. I've read it as a book and listened on audio. I need to read it several more times to take it all in! | @Trader_Calm Yeah, of the few books that you can feel yourself getting smarter as you read them :) I would put Taleb's Incerto series also in these category of books. | @chronic_trader I tried but I cant do ten and there isn't enough room for a full list so books Ive recently enjoyed are: Sapiens Homo Deus The Silk Road The Lean Start Up Trust me Im lying Conspiracy Chaos Monkeys David Bowie A life Why Minksy Matters The Sheltering Sky The Undoing Project | @joy_in_words Book Sapiens, Movie Aviator | A grand theory of humanity. | A great book about how we’ve evolved and why we have anxiety. | A previous favorite. | American Like Me by @AmericaFerrera & Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind @harari_yuval | Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share. | Day 3: I’ve been nominated by @filadin to post covers of 7 books that I love with no explanations or reviews. Each time I post I will ask another to take up the challenge. Today I nominate @bluebirds4418 | Have you read the book, Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari Great read. Here's his @TEDTalks on the topic. Mind=blown: | I am almost halfway through my second reading of this thought provoking book. Interesting how much l had not taken in the first time l read the book. | I cannot recommend Yuval Harari's book, Sapiens, enough. Here's my favourite bit about the need for stories. | I couldn?t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari?s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative?that?s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I couldn’t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari’s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative—that’s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I just love the style of his writing. | I read 95 books in 2016. Best nonfiction: Sapiens, Saving Capitalism, The New Jim Crow, The Social Animal, Story (by McKee). | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished ?Guns, Germs, and Steel? and ?Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches?, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that ?truths? are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches”, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that “truths” are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history. | I'm sitting on Miami Beach in the sun reading this excellent book, drinking rosé, listening to cheesy 90s R&B. 2016 has a kiss in its tail | It explains human behavior and why we are the way we are in human civilization from soup to nuts. And I’ve read it now a couple of times. It’s a pretty astonishing book. | It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical. It’s written by Yuval Noah Harari. I heard him speak and it’s fascinating. It’s about humanity and how we came to be. It’s a book that I carried around for a while but it’s like 500 pages. | I’m going to give Sapiens over and over again to everyone I know. | I’ve said it before and I’ll definitely say it in the future, the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is truly mindblowing. It’s changed the way I look at almost everything. I can’t endorse it enough. | Love this book still | One of the books I’ve given most as a gift. | One of the most talked about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason. Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socioanthropological history. | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today?s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today’s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | Q: Are there any books you haven’t mentioned that you feel would make your reading list P.A.: I would also include the following books: The Emperor of All Maladies, Where Men Win Glory, The President’s Club, The Most Important Thing, Sapiens, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, 10 Percent Happier, The Rommel Papers, King of the World, The Corner and Good Calories, Bad Calories. | Really enjoying “Sapiens” by yuval_noah_harari It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species. | Really great book | Some books should be read twice (or more). This is one of them. On my second reading now. | The brainy book I seem to be sharing or talking about the most lately. | Unbelievably good book. Jaw dropping from the first word to the last. Best £9.99 I've spent in ages. | Wonderful book! Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Francis Bacon said history can make us wise. Here is a history of the whole human race! | “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari Great book!”
Source →“"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book I've read since "The Rational Optimist" (@mattwridley). Both orthogonal and deep thinkers. | 13. Sapiens 35 years A delightfully wonderful book. Just as "Brief history of time", Yuval skillfully simplified the journey of our civilization. Making me fall in love with the art of teaching, yet again. | 3 books I recommended on Pomp's podcast. These books help you understand how our world works (or doesn’t work). This understanding is essential for success. | 6. Sapiens A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind Vol. 1 + The Pillars of Civilization Vol. 2 The illustrated version of the book Sapiens. Stunningly done! Highly recommended | @JJFilson Great book and agree. But can wealth just be created by desire It may not be a zero sum game but aren’t there some constraints If we keep creating more and more wealth mechanisms, can we just buy more things with no downside | @Savo_Heleta Just a little quote from Yuval Harari's Sapiens, one of the best books I read this year. Someone should have given it to you for Christmas, if you are prepared to look beyond your Fanon blinkers. | @ThuesenMartin I love this book. I've read it as a book and listened on audio. I need to read it several more times to take it all in! | @Trader_Calm Yeah, of the few books that you can feel yourself getting smarter as you read them :) I would put Taleb's Incerto series also in these category of books. | @chronic_trader I tried but I cant do ten and there isn't enough room for a full list so books Ive recently enjoyed are: Sapiens Homo Deus The Silk Road The Lean Start Up Trust me Im lying Conspiracy Chaos Monkeys David Bowie A life Why Minksy Matters The Sheltering Sky The Undoing Project | @joy_in_words Book Sapiens, Movie Aviator | A grand theory of humanity. | A great book about how we’ve evolved and why we have anxiety. | A previous favorite. | American Like Me by @AmericaFerrera & Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind @harari_yuval | Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share. | Day 3: I’ve been nominated by @filadin to post covers of 7 books that I love with no explanations or reviews. Each time I post I will ask another to take up the challenge. Today I nominate @bluebirds4418 | Have you read the book, Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari Great read. Here's his @TEDTalks on the topic. Mind=blown: | I am almost halfway through my second reading of this thought provoking book. Interesting how much l had not taken in the first time l read the book. | I cannot recommend Yuval Harari's book, Sapiens, enough. Here's my favourite bit about the need for stories. | I couldn?t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari?s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative?that?s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I couldn’t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari’s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative—that’s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I just love the style of his writing. | I read 95 books in 2016. Best nonfiction: Sapiens, Saving Capitalism, The New Jim Crow, The Social Animal, Story (by McKee). | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished ?Guns, Germs, and Steel? and ?Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches?, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that ?truths? are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches”, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that “truths” are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history. | I'm sitting on Miami Beach in the sun reading this excellent book, drinking rosé, listening to cheesy 90s R&B. 2016 has a kiss in its tail | It explains human behavior and why we are the way we are in human civilization from soup to nuts. And I’ve read it now a couple of times. It’s a pretty astonishing book. | It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical. It’s written by Yuval Noah Harari. I heard him speak and it’s fascinating. It’s about humanity and how we came to be. It’s a book that I carried around for a while but it’s like 500 pages. | I’m going to give Sapiens over and over again to everyone I know. | I’ve said it before and I’ll definitely say it in the future, the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is truly mindblowing. It’s changed the way I look at almost everything. I can’t endorse it enough. | Love this book still | One of the books I’ve given most as a gift. | One of the most talked about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason. Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socioanthropological history. | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today?s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today’s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | Q: Are there any books you haven’t mentioned that you feel would make your reading list P.A.: I would also include the following books: The Emperor of All Maladies, Where Men Win Glory, The President’s Club, The Most Important Thing, Sapiens, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, 10 Percent Happier, The Rommel Papers, King of the World, The Corner and Good Calories, Bad Calories. | Really enjoying “Sapiens” by yuval_noah_harari It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species. | Really great book | Some books should be read twice (or more). This is one of them. On my second reading now. | The brainy book I seem to be sharing or talking about the most lately. | Unbelievably good book. Jaw dropping from the first word to the last. Best £9.99 I've spent in ages. | Wonderful book! Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Francis Bacon said history can make us wise. Here is a history of the whole human race! | “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari Great book!”
Source →Recommended by 12 notable people, including Naval Ravikant and Nat Eliason
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A sweeping narrative history of Homo sapiens from the Cognitive Revolution to the present. Harari argues that what makes humans dominate the planet is not physical strength but collective myths: shared fictions like money, religion, and nations that allow millions of strangers to cooperate. The book moves fast through 70,000 years, making big, debatable claims about agriculture, empire, capitalism, and happiness. It is less a history textbook than a provocative essay in chronological form, and best read as an argument rather than a reference.
Read this if...
- •A product manager trying to understand why teams rally around mission statements they know are partly fiction, and how that shared belief still makes the work real.
- •A startup founder who has been told to create a narrative but struggles to see why investors value story over spreadsheets—this book makes the case that storytelling IS the operating system.
- •A curious generalist who felt school history was just memorizing dates and wants a big-picture lens on why societies work the way they do, even if some claims are speculative.
Skip this if...
- •You will bounce off when sweeping generalizations replace footnotes—Harari often trades rigor for readability, and the lack of hedging frustrates readers trained to expect peer-reviewed caution.
- •You will lose interest around the agriculture chapter if you cannot stomach the argument that farming was the biggest fraud in history and made humans objectively worse off—the contrarianism feels like a gimmick after a while.
- •Skip if you want a balanced, multi-perspective history book; this is a single, forceful thesis delivered with magazine-level pacing, and academics in the room will keep wanting to interrupt.
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Difficulty:medium
Length:520 pages (Long)
Audience Fit
- A product manager trying to understand why teams rally around mission statements they know are partly fiction, and how that shared belief still makes the work real.
- A startup founder who has been told to create a narrative but struggles to see why investors value story over spreadsheets—this book makes the case that storytelling IS the operating system.
- A curious generalist who felt school history was just memorizing dates and wants a big-picture lens on why societies work the way they do, even if some claims are speculative.
- You will bounce off when sweeping generalizations replace footnotes—Harari often trades rigor for readability, and the lack of hedging frustrates readers trained to expect peer-reviewed caution.
- You will lose interest around the agriculture chapter if you cannot stomach the argument that farming was the biggest fraud in history and made humans objectively worse off—the contrarianism feels like a gimmick after a while.
- Skip if you want a balanced, multi-perspective history book; this is a single, forceful thesis delivered with magazine-level pacing, and academics in the room will keep wanting to interrupt.
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Recommended by 101 sources and appears in Knowledge, Natural History, and Anthropology.
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Jessica Alba
“"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book I've read since "The Rational Optimist" (@mattwridley). Both orthogonal and deep thinkers. | 13. Sapiens 35 years A delightfully wonderful book. Just as "Brief history of time", Yuval skillfully simplified the journey of our civilization. Making me fall in love with the art of teaching, yet again. | 3 books I recommended on Pomp's podcast. These books help you understand how our world works (or doesn’t work). This understanding is essential for success. | 6. Sapiens A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind Vol. 1 + The Pillars of Civilization Vol. 2 The illustrated version of the book Sapiens. Stunningly done! Highly recommended | @JJFilson Great book and agree. But can wealth just be created by desire It may not be a zero sum game but aren’t there some constraints If we keep creating more and more wealth mechanisms, can we just buy more things with no downside | @Savo_Heleta Just a little quote from Yuval Harari's Sapiens, one of the best books I read this year. Someone should have given it to you for Christmas, if you are prepared to look beyond your Fanon blinkers. | @ThuesenMartin I love this book. I've read it as a book and listened on audio. I need to read it several more times to take it all in! | @Trader_Calm Yeah, of the few books that you can feel yourself getting smarter as you read them :) I would put Taleb's Incerto series also in these category of books. | @chronic_trader I tried but I cant do ten and there isn't enough room for a full list so books Ive recently enjoyed are: Sapiens Homo Deus The Silk Road The Lean Start Up Trust me Im lying Conspiracy Chaos Monkeys David Bowie A life Why Minksy Matters The Sheltering Sky The Undoing Project | @joy_in_words Book Sapiens, Movie Aviator | A grand theory of humanity. | A great book about how we’ve evolved and why we have anxiety. | A previous favorite. | American Like Me by @AmericaFerrera & Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind @harari_yuval | Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share. | Day 3: I’ve been nominated by @filadin to post covers of 7 books that I love with no explanations or reviews. Each time I post I will ask another to take up the challenge. Today I nominate @bluebirds4418 | Have you read the book, Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari Great read. Here's his @TEDTalks on the topic. Mind=blown: | I am almost halfway through my second reading of this thought provoking book. Interesting how much l had not taken in the first time l read the book. | I cannot recommend Yuval Harari's book, Sapiens, enough. Here's my favourite bit about the need for stories. | I couldn?t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari?s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative?that?s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I couldn’t put Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari down. I found Harari’s writing to be engaging yet academic and authoritative—that’s not easy to do. It inspired me to see if my writing could have a similar impact. | I just love the style of his writing. | I read 95 books in 2016. Best nonfiction: Sapiens, Saving Capitalism, The New Jim Crow, The Social Animal, Story (by McKee). | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished ?Guns, Germs, and Steel? and ?Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches?, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that ?truths? are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I resisted reading this popular history of mankind, because it came out when I had just finished “Guns, Germs, and Steel” and “Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches”, on the same subject. But wow this book is at its best when the author is sharing his personal perspective about binding myths, humanism, and other ways that “truths” are not true. And you get an interesting history of the world along with it. Strange mix of history and philosophy. | I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history. | I'm sitting on Miami Beach in the sun reading this excellent book, drinking rosé, listening to cheesy 90s R&B. 2016 has a kiss in its tail | It explains human behavior and why we are the way we are in human civilization from soup to nuts. And I’ve read it now a couple of times. It’s a pretty astonishing book. | It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical. It’s written by Yuval Noah Harari. I heard him speak and it’s fascinating. It’s about humanity and how we came to be. It’s a book that I carried around for a while but it’s like 500 pages. | I’m going to give Sapiens over and over again to everyone I know. | I’ve said it before and I’ll definitely say it in the future, the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is truly mindblowing. It’s changed the way I look at almost everything. I can’t endorse it enough. | Love this book still | One of the books I’ve given most as a gift. | One of the most talked about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason. Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socioanthropological history. | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today?s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | People often ask me what to read. Better to LISTEN to a book like @harari_yuval book SAPIENS so you can navigate today’s lunacy. All members of the press should read this book twice. Get out of your echo chambers! | Q: Are there any books you haven’t mentioned that you feel would make your reading list P.A.: I would also include the following books: The Emperor of All Maladies, Where Men Win Glory, The President’s Club, The Most Important Thing, Sapiens, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, 10 Percent Happier, The Rommel Papers, King of the World, The Corner and Good Calories, Bad Calories. | Really enjoying “Sapiens” by yuval_noah_harari It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species. | Really great book | Some books should be read twice (or more). This is one of them. On my second reading now. | The brainy book I seem to be sharing or talking about the most lately. | Unbelievably good book. Jaw dropping from the first word to the last. Best £9.99 I've spent in ages. | Wonderful book! Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Francis Bacon said history can make us wise. Here is a history of the whole human race! | “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari Great book!”
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