Sapiens

“I also recently read sapiens by a guy named Harari which is just phenomenal I'm going to give that thing over and over again to everyone”

“I think sapience sapience Yeah I mean that book”

“one of the things I loved about Harari sapiens is I finished it and I just thought thank God someone wrote that book like the world really needed it”

“and along with those laws came laws as yuval harari points out in his brilliant book sapiens once you hit protect money you have to protect the people that lend the money”

“have you read the book species”

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

“oh so i mean that's like the book sapiens uh yeah that basically we've all”

“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”

“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'_ll know a horror re oh okay that's great - and also the talent code it's another book I'm in the middle of I”

“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 -”

“there's a great book that Bryan Callen turned me on to that I'm reading right now called sapiens the the origins of human beings it's completely fascinating”

“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”

“I read if you know the book sapiens one of the no you're like the fifth person to talk about I got to get it everyone talks about sapiens”

“I'm I'm uh listening to this book right now on tape about uh you know, or like prehistoric man from like the first socialization. Oh. What's it called? Sapiens. Who wrote that? Um who wrote Sapiens? You've all Noah Harrari. Whoa. What a name. You've all a brief history of humankind.”

“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”

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

“this actually is a corollary to that which is sapiens and i know that's a very normal normie answer yeah um one of the best selling but i think there's a reason for that”

“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”

“There are some people, and this is going to lead to my question, like Yuval Noah Harari, who wrote Sapiens, who I've had on the podcast, who does a silent meditation retreat for a month every year, as far as I can tell, and handles it like a champion.”

“what was the title of the original english version of sapience and how many copies did it sell yeah it was a long story i mean the original english version was titled from animals into gods and it sold it was a self-publication on amazon”

“sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari”

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

“that's according to a historian Yuval Noah Harari who wrote who writes excellent books homodeus sapiens uh n's roommate and I go back and forth for hours about this stuff”

“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”

“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”

“do you read a book called sapiens I sent you probably not but you Val Harare everybody should read it it's an amazing book”

“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 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 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”

“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”

“You ever read that book Sapiens? Yes. Such a great book and he goes into the fact that monogamy probably not what what is wired in us.”

“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.”

“He's probably best known for Sapiens, which is I'd say Yuval is a author who can synthesize a ton of information across history, both modern and older.”

“the spiritual book that I keep returning to sapiens by you've all know aa Harare a history of the human species with observations frameworks and mental models that will have you looking at history in your fellow humans differently”

“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.”

“the author of the landmark book sapiens which is the utterly fascinating narrative of humanity's origins and evolution”

“yuval harari is just i think that can open your mind um sapiens sapiens as as the first one homo deuce is the second”

“I read Sapiens several times. I want to like really really you know, embed stuff.”

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

“i mean we were hunter-gatherers going back to like yuval and sapiens and stuff like that by data reading that book helped me because that context and perspective i think is so important in understanding who you are”

“And so what was interesting as I read his amazing book Sapiens, there is not a character in the entire book.”

“And so what was interesting as I read his amazing book, Sapiens, there is not a character in the entire book. So he violates your first rule of storytelling, like how can this book sell millions of copies when it doesn't have anything that people like?”

“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”

“you not only sold a ton of copies but I think people actually read sapiens after they buy it which isn't always the case”

“you write as far as we can tell from a purely scientific Viewpoint human life has no meaning”

“again the Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud”

“So I've heard the story that if it weren't for your deep insecurities around public speaking, the book Sapiens might never have come to be. Is that a true story?”

“You not only sold a ton of copies, but I think people actually read Sapiens after they buy it, which isn't always the case.”

“And unlike almost every other popular nonfiction book that people read, Sapiens is almost completely devoid of characters.”

“I know, for instance, that you don't eat a whole lot of meat. And it's really clear when you write about the modern meat industry that you write from the perspective of someone who doesn't approve of the methods being used.”

“So I bookmarked a couple of examples. Here's one from Sapiens. You write, as far as we can tell, from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has no meaning.”

“Let me give another quote. This one is from Sapiens again. The agricultural revolution was history's biggest fraud.”

“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.”

“So suddenly this political class, this political power base, they become the useless class to borrow a term from Yuval Harrari, the author of Sapiens.”

“I mean if you if you obviously read the book sapiens by novel Harari and his central point is that what bound us as humans”

“I was thinking about sapiens and the role that stories play um in engaging our brains”

“I have three of your books here and these are three books that sent a huge tidal wave, a ripple through society.”

“And when I read sapiens, this book I have here, language was so central to what made us powerful as homo sapiens.”

“Yal, your book Sapiens changed the world in many ways. is it gave us a new perspective and a new understanding of who we are as as humans, where we've come from. And with that, we have a road map for where we're going. It's celebrating its 10th anniversary.”

“author of several highly acclaimed, highly influential books, including Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.”

“yeah harare and sapiens rewinds that even farther back into like caveman times that's the thing that made us humans special is who can develop these clusters of ideas hold them in their minds through stories pass them on to each other”

“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'm with – uh harare with the sapiens that we're kind of we seem to construct ideas on top of each other and that's a fundamentally a social process”

“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”

“so basically in the book sapiens the author hypothesizes that hunter gatherers you know we're talking pre- civilization worked something like 30 hours a week and spent a lot of time just being idle with family”

“the book sapiens kind of goes through this a lot about how humans need to self-organize”

“to bridge that to this other book sapiens have you read sapiens”

“At least when I wrote Sapiens, I didn't take myself or the project too seriously because I didn't think that many people would read it. It came out of this university course.”

“In the later books, a few times, but in Sapiens, no.”

“When I wrote Sapiens, my impression was that I'm just saying what I was taught as a student in my first year in the history department at university.”

“I suppose that I mean that's one of the main things that I learned from the sapiens right by you've all know Harare about the fact that up until whatever 15 000 years ago there's no opportunity for people to have massive amounts of inequality because there's nowhere near enough Surplus resources”

“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'm not disagreeing with chamoth but the the point the point that resonates with me that friedrich said is actually the book sapiens really did impact my thinking as a vc which is you know yuval harari makes this point that it's narratives that kind of define you know humans”

“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.”

“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 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”

“Harrari's, have you read Sapiens? His thesis is we we worked out how to work together beyond the 150 done by number.”

“I mean do of all her re on the program talking about his book sapiens I don't have things I didn't like about that book either”

“so I interviewed ybal Harari a while back about his first book which is sapiens”

“have you read like yuil Harari sapiens I certainly have read portions of it”

“I started listening to the audiobook of sapiens yeah and that's I feel like that's what it's getting to”

“They say, I was just reading the other day, oh, um Sapiens, that Harari book. Um fascinating stuff, those those books.”

“and I think it was you Harari um in sapiens where or no maybe it was homod deas where he talks about how in the future the wars will be fought within inter subjective reality”

“so I was inspired I'll admit by Yul Harari sapiens you know his big history of humans across time”

“what's been one of the most phenomenally successful history books of of the last 10 15 years it's you Val no Harari sapiens series and and so on very attractive book to Big popular audiences tens of millions of copies sold across the world”

“by the way this is the cliff notes version of sapiens everybody yes let's know it's version of sapience”

“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”

“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'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!”

“in non-fiction there are just two new books um one of them new at number six is by a guy named Yuval Noah Harari h a r a r i that book is called sapiens and it's um kind of a a pop science book”

“I read a book called sapiens yeah this is what they absolutely think that they looked like the neander TOs looked like”

“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.”

“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”

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

“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”

“A brief history of humankind. I didn't know. Okay. I watched this doc and it was on AI and it was really interesting, scary and cool. Yeah. And this guy was on there and I love how he talk and they said he had written a book or whatever and turns out it's like a huge book that everybody's read.”

“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 the the most obvious proponent of how entrenched this is in kind of academic thought is, have you ever read the book Sapiens? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. By Noah Harrari. It's an extremely popular book. It sold something like 60 million copies worldwide. by far the most popular book about prehistory and you know the story of Homo sapiens ever”

“The book Sapiens was all about humans are people of narrative, right? I love storytelling.”

“The one standout there is the book Sapiens, where uh it was written in his native Hebrew. And then when it when it first published, my understanding is when it was published in Hebrew, it sold okay. And they translated to English, and it's one of the best-selling nonfiction books of all time.”

“Just a quick shout out to you yourself, Mr. Benolan. You uh gifted both Matt Frederick and myself a lovely graphic novel version of the book Sapiens.”

“Like Sapiens by Harari, which is a great book, he also misses that. Like, when it comes to those moments, he writes like, "We don't understand how the first cognitive revolution and the second cognitive revolution actually happened."”

“I was looking at the work of Uval Noah Harrari, the writer of Sapiens, uh, which I s foundly enjoyable till it became clear to me it was an atheistic trope”

“this might be a um from the sapiens book that were designed when you go into a room to rank yourself”

“In one of his books, he was like, "You know, like hunter-gatherers worked only 30 hours a week." And that kind of seems like an ideal number.”

“What was it? Homo sapiens. Yeah. Eddie wrote and Yeah.”

“i'm swith sa harare with the sapiens that we're kind of we seem to construct ideas on top of each other”

“I might make some terrible mistakes but that's fine I mean who's going to read it anyway people did read sapiens millions of people”

“well he's a fascinating guy sapiens the book and I mean in a way they're talking about the transhumanist”

“No so Noah you've all her re also wrote sapiens he talks about that sort of thing in both of his books”

“It's like what Yuval Harari, the author of Sapiens, who wrote that book Sapiens. He has this great metaphor of how I guess in the post-Roman period...”

“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.”

“You probably already read it. It's called Sapiens, I think. And uh it's essentially it's about um anxiety.”

“I think applies though I've been reading this book called sapiens by you all Noah Harari and it's the idea of the evolution of man”

“I'm sure we've mentioned this book on the on the podcast before uh sapiens a brief history of human kind by yal Noah Harari is a fantastic readed”

“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.”

“have you ever read sapiens by any chance yes yeah”

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