Why I love this book
I recommend Sapiens because it gave me the universal timeline I still use.
Harari starts from first principles and describes the human species without the usual tribal flattery. After I read it, I stopped treating every company crisis as a unique drama.
It sits inside a much longer pattern of how we invent stories, then live inside them. That context is what I reach for when I have to hold science, people, and a P&L in the same room.
34 authors picked Sapiens as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?
In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the…
