Naval Ravikant mentioned Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari 21 times

I love that book so much.

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2019-08-17 on fs.blog

Start with thoughtful overviews like “The Lessons of History,” “Sapiens,” and Matt Ridley’s books.

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I recommend history books (Durants, Sapiens) all the time. It’s just that I don’t think you need to go to school to “learn” history. Save school for the stuff that’s hard to learn on your own. Read literature, history, philosophy, etc. in your spare time because you love it.

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Matt Ridley, Neal Stephenson, Taleb, Borges, Ted Chiang, Anthony DeMello, Osho, J Krishnamurti, Harari, Asimov, Bradbury, Greg Egan, Feynman, Schrödinger, Bohr, Chris Alexander, the Durants, Darwin, Adam Smith, David Deutsch, Karl Popper, Douglas Hofstader, Douglas Adams

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Harari wrote sapiens which is one of my favorite books in the last few years and I recommend it to everybody. It gave me some fundamental shifts in world view.

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2018-10-10 on pscp.tv

Harari wrote Sapiens which was one of my favorite books in the last few years and I recommend it to everybody. It gave me some fundamental shifts in worldview.

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2018-10-10 on pscp.tv

Homo Deus, successor to Sapiens? Good, but nowhere near as good as Sapiens. Sapiens I think is the best book of the last decade that I have read. I loved Sapiens and I highly recommend it for everybody here. Homo Deus is a sequel and I think you all know that Harari is a genius, but the issue he had was, he had decades to write Sapiens. Then his editors probably said, “Wow! That made a lot of money, so can you please crank out a second book right away?” So they come up with one in a year or two and call it Homo Deus. Homo Deus is very insightful and very clever and very smart, but it’s basically got one big idea at the center. When you figure out that one idea, you don’t need to finish the whole book. Whereas with Sapiens, there’s lots and lots of great ideas in there and it’s just full of them, chock full per page.

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2018-01-20 on pscp.tv

I think I read that in Sapiens.

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Harari’s Sapiens in lecture / course form:https://t.co/CzpigxZUZU https://t.co/YSZLODd72u

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Never wrote a book but I have a blog at http://startupboy.com Loved Sapiens!

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Depending on your mood, either The Sovereign Individual, Sapiens, Siddhartha, Total Freedom (JK), The Untethered Soul, or the Rational Optimist. Books are cheap, buy all and skim them for the one that grabs you.

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Didn't finish it. Good book but not as seminal as Sapiens.

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Sapiens, The Lessons of History, Reality is not what it seems...

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To answer your question - shortcut to Munger, M Ridley, Harari, Feynman, Darwin, J Krishnamurti. It'll be different next year ;-)

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Feynman, Darwin, J Krishnamurti, Hitchens, Ridley, Harari, Aurelius, Seneca, Lao Tzu, Newton, Munger, Borges, D. Adams, Hesse...

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Just picked up Sapiens and it's even better than I'd remembered. Maybe I'll do a podcast just to reread it.

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Best book I've read since Sapiens (far less mainstream, though).

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In the last year it’s probably Sapiens [that I gifted most to others], by Yuval Noah Hariri. It’s a history of the human species written by a professor of history in Israel. It’s absolutely mind blowing. It’s a very orthogonal view on humans clinically as we are.

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2015-08-08 on tim.blog

If you like history and science, Sapiens is great because it’s a very easy read. There’s nothing difficult about it. You can just fly through it.

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2015-08-08 on tim.blog

@rabois Best book I've read in the last year.

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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.

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