Sapiens

“i've listened to that sapiens audio book like 20 times”

“but that's what when you listen to sapiens and you understand that book they're saying like the branches of the tree”

“did you read that book there I think it was called sapiens yes because when you were talking about the um Ancient Man it made me think of that because I one of the things I remember from that book was that the homo sapien at least if I I could be misremembering this so correct me if I'm wrong”

“and that I think in the book sapiens by Harari yeah great book he makes the point about grain enslaving us because the Agricultural Revolution ten thousand years ago they we didn't really become better”

“and that I think in the book sapiens by Harari yeah great book he makes the point about grain enslaving us because the Agricultural Revolution ten thousand years ago they we didn't really become better”

“and that's the you noah yuval haradi right yes the guy that wrote sapiens”

“there's a great book sapiens from uh noah what is yuval haradi um it's a great book but it just it outlines the history of the human race and these various tribes that have dealt with like weird [ __ ] like that”

“I'm reading the tipping point which is a Malcolm Gladwell book And also reading sapiens which is who wrote sapiens I heard someone read the book tipping point is great mm-hmm It's really great Really interesting and it is But I also felt like who is it You've all know a horror re Oh okay That's great -”

“I started listening to the audiobook of sapiens yeah and that's I feel like that's what it's getting to just that question you're asking the first couple chapters are leading up to like he says it over and over again like thousands of years from now”

“how about in sapiens how like farming really is like ended up being a real problem for humans”

“How about in sapiens How like farming really is like ended up being a real problem for humans like we could finally feed everyone But the problem is is we started eating crap”

“I used to listen to a lot more podcasts and now for me it's a lot more books I go back to sapiens this is really one of my favorite books”

“I go back to sapiens this is really one of my favorite books I have a number two that's really close but this changed my viewpoint on so many things and evolves”

“like the book sapiens and the fact that we're able to kind of connect like network our brains together like you write about”

“as I don't know if you've read the book sapiens mm-hmm but there's an idea that you know that as a collective is us human beings”

“but you've all her re oh wow I love that guy yeah sapiens is amazing yeah savings my favorite book”

“yeah sapiens is amazing”

“Harari wrote his book Sapiens where he says that the real defining trait of our species versus other species was our ability to collaborate and basically scratch each other's backs.”

“I have yet to wrote the book book called Sapiens in which he talks about the fact that almost everything that we live in the world in in which we exist is a kind of shared myth”

“yval Harari and sapiens is a fantastic way of taking the wonkiest anthropology evolutionary science and turning it into highly accessible concrete language”

“I saw on here like two years ago sapiens that book Yes uh I read it because of this podcast and in that book somewhere it says that like people are only supposed to be in groups of 150 people”

“i've listened to that sapiens audio book like 20 times but yeah it escapes me but you're it's really good it's in my brain somewhere it's good to go back to over and over again”

“This actually is a corollary to that which is sapiens and i know that's a very normal normie answer”

“that he actually made it in a very short op-ed in the guardian a few years ago but it's a it's a major theme of both of his first two books sapiens and homodes that what is distinctive about human civilization is that we use our imaginations”

“uh like the book sapiens and the fact that we're able to kind of connect like network our brains together like you write about”

“I read an uh Safian no it's great really just stopped her but that's just mind-boggling with the numbers you know he's right back Whoa Whoa”

“like even if you were there there's this book called sapiens it's really good”

“you've all re book sapiens one of the central ideas and in his book is that like storytelling is like the quintessential thing for coordinating the activities of large groups of people”

“and yuval harare talks about this brilliantly in this book which is that you cannot prove mathematically or biologically that that the idea that all men are created equal does that say indians are the newbies yes sapiens is israel right”

“All right so all of these pieces you have to have all of them and they kind of like slide against each other until it snaps into this new thing that's our legalistically in sapiens totally get it”

“have you read sapiens sapiens no I'm not evolutionary book about what you've all her Otte I think that's the name of his he's amazing”

“I was reading sapiens by Yuval no Harare and he was talking about how our brains are disproportionately wired to be capable of remembering plants seasons and terrain navigation”

“I was reading sapiens by Yuval no Harare and he was talking about how our brains are disproportionately wired to be capable of remembering plants seasons and terrain navigation”

“There was a—I never finished Sapiens, and I opened it up on my Audible on a plane and I realized why I bailed out of a particular chapter that I'd been deep in, and it was talking about the unfair gender inequality that was sort of replete throughout humanity's heritage.”

“I'm always looking for the cross-section of different ideas that come to the same conclusion. Have you read like Yuval Harari's Sapiens? I certainly have read portions of it, yep!”

“The following is a conversation with Yuval Noah Harari, a historian, philosopher, and author of several highly acclaimed, highly influential books, including 'Sapiens', 'Homo Deus', and '21 Lessons for the 21st Century'.”

“I did read something really really spooky recently from Yuval Noah Harari who uh you guys know is is a wonderful writer for a wonderful writer of several books like sapiens”

“My guest today is Yuval Noah Harari, author of the blockbuster book Sapiens, which tells the entire history of our species in under 450 pages.”

“I'm not sure it's self-confidence; at least when I wrote Sapiens, I didn't take myself or the project too seriously. I thought, sure, I might make some terrible mistakes, but that's fine.”

“You may know him as the author of some hugely best-selling books, including Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and just recently, a new book called Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World.”

“This is the cliff notes version of 'Sapiens'.”

“Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with Chamath, but the point that resonates with me that Friedberg said is actually the book "Sapiens" really did impact my thinking as a VC. Yuval Harari makes this point that it's narratives that kind of define humans and that's what binds us together in societies.”

“But I'm thinking of the examples that Yuval Harari sites in 'Sapiens' and how we all have these collective myths and fictions that drive economic growth and innovation. He gives the example of a talented baker like my grandmother wanting to open a restaurant, but not having enough actual money.”

“Yuval Noah Harari’s book 'Sapiens' articulates this well, and I strongly recommend it. He discusses how people create shared myths allowing coordination among larger groups.”

“I mean, we had Yuval Harari on the podcast too, and basically in his book, Sapiens, he argues that tech helps mankind leapfrog natural evolution. And only in that context, we were talking about it across a much larger time scale, but in this context, I do think of it as a primordial soup for the next phase.”

“if you go her always great book sapiens everybody should read it”

“and you know um we were talking the other day about yuval uh noah haradi the the guy the author who wrote sapiens he um had a segment on his uh instagram”

“it wasn't in sapiens I I read it in some book that I'm sure you've read a 100 times”

“it's like hey it's worth something because we think it's worth something that story you know you look at uh A Book Like sapiens stories are what have kind of helped humans get to the point where we are”

“so there are sapiens was another another one that came up across the board repeatedly”