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Yuval Noah Harari
66 books39k followersYuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and philosopher. He is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals working today.
Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Harari co-founded the social impact company Sapienship, focused on education and storytelling, with his husband, Itzik Yahav.
Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Harari co-founded the social impact company Sapienship, focused on education and storytelling, with his husband, Itzik Yahav.
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September 18, 2019
I have read each of them more than 2 times and each time I was left in awe. They are all very mind-stimulating and well-written. Harari is a wizard!
January 3, 2020
A mandatory reading for the XXI century
January 30, 2022
Awesome and logical. Fantastic.
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November 22, 2020November 2019. That was when I began my journey with this series, and exactly an year later, it has come to an end. It is one of the best trilogies I have come across ever ever ever!
After reading Sapiens, I was completely mesmerized by the way it was written & was automatically drawn towards the rest. 'Sapiens' gave a detailed account of evolution of humanity on this planet, while 'Homo Deus' talks majorly about the next stage of evolution. And since we are keeping one foot in the past with another in future, Harari brings us back to find a perfect balance in the present with '21 lessons'!
@yuval_noah_harari has lucidly explained the entire humanity with his wondrous storytelling, but there is so much information on every single page, I had to slow down my pace & take time to digest it all before consuming more. Although there is an overlap between the books, Harari has provided his golden touch for linking this trilogy. These books are so incredibly insightful that they must be read ATLEAST once in a lifetime!
After reading Sapiens, I was completely mesmerized by the way it was written & was automatically drawn towards the rest. 'Sapiens' gave a detailed account of evolution of humanity on this planet, while 'Homo Deus' talks majorly about the next stage of evolution. And since we are keeping one foot in the past with another in future, Harari brings us back to find a perfect balance in the present with '21 lessons'!
@yuval_noah_harari has lucidly explained the entire humanity with his wondrous storytelling, but there is so much information on every single page, I had to slow down my pace & take time to digest it all before consuming more. Although there is an overlap between the books, Harari has provided his golden touch for linking this trilogy. These books are so incredibly insightful that they must be read ATLEAST once in a lifetime!
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July 29, 2021Homo Sapiens is a mind boggling and breathtaking read.If you’re someone who’s curious about why things are the way they are today then this book will be an insightful read. The author explains all aspects of human history like biology, theism, beliefs, capitalism, nationalism etc through a non biased lens. Each chapter keeps getting provocative. It’s a book you can’t forget and would want to read again
February 14, 2020
Read the 1st book and am in the middle of second one, and have to agree it's a 21st century must read!
June 17, 2020
I couldn't find a way to separate these books from one another, so be warned that I've included here only Homo Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind. Until this moment I had no knowledge of the existence of the others, so maybe I'll go on to them in the future. In the meantime. . .
Between my previous reading of The Invention of Yesterday, A 50,00 Year of Human Culture by Tamim Ansary, I should be completely versed on the entirety of human affairs from our beginnings and beyond. I guess I could quit reading altogether, but I’m far too addicted for that and well beyond the help of any program 12 steps or 12,000.
What’s most remarkable to me about Sapiens is the manner and extent in which Harari melds scientific and biological evidence with sociological and cultural. We go back to pre-neanderthal times (100,000 years ago and more) when probably several different editions of our species were roaming the earth. Whether and how they met, intermarried, or otherwise communicated with one another is speculative, but Harari’s point is that we can’t buy into the linear progression from ape-neanderthal-homo sapiens (means “wise man,” by the way. Some joke, that.) that most early textbooks imagined.
Rather, we somehow outran, outdueled, outlived our ancestors despite our smaller brains and inferior muscle mass. How? We outsmarted them, and we were better able to work cooperatively. In so doing, we wiped out the larger species of every other animal group we encountered as we migrated from east to west and north to south. [That doesn’t include dinosaurs, of course, who came a few tens of millions of years earlier.]
Why are there no more sabertooth tigers or mammoths, or giant kangaroos or a host of other creatures whose bones archeologists have excavated? They couldn’t reproduce fast enough or in sufficient numbers to keep up with the rate at which we slaughtered them. And all this without the aid of a single elephant gun. Thus did we dominate our earth.
But Harari doesn’t stop there. What’s the next stage? Obviously AI, where our own inventions will produce “fundamental transformations in human consciousness and identity.” And with the possibility of replacing our biological parts with mechanical and electronic ones, we maybe could become, not immortal, but as he terms it “amortal”. Beings whose longevity will extend far beyond anything we’ve been able to achieve so far.
Between you and me I’m not enough of a “Homo Sapien” to think that would be a good thing. But maybe I’m just in a sort of neanderthal stage and can’t appreciate the possibilities.
Between my previous reading of The Invention of Yesterday, A 50,00 Year of Human Culture by Tamim Ansary, I should be completely versed on the entirety of human affairs from our beginnings and beyond. I guess I could quit reading altogether, but I’m far too addicted for that and well beyond the help of any program 12 steps or 12,000.
What’s most remarkable to me about Sapiens is the manner and extent in which Harari melds scientific and biological evidence with sociological and cultural. We go back to pre-neanderthal times (100,000 years ago and more) when probably several different editions of our species were roaming the earth. Whether and how they met, intermarried, or otherwise communicated with one another is speculative, but Harari’s point is that we can’t buy into the linear progression from ape-neanderthal-homo sapiens (means “wise man,” by the way. Some joke, that.) that most early textbooks imagined.
Rather, we somehow outran, outdueled, outlived our ancestors despite our smaller brains and inferior muscle mass. How? We outsmarted them, and we were better able to work cooperatively. In so doing, we wiped out the larger species of every other animal group we encountered as we migrated from east to west and north to south. [That doesn’t include dinosaurs, of course, who came a few tens of millions of years earlier.]
Why are there no more sabertooth tigers or mammoths, or giant kangaroos or a host of other creatures whose bones archeologists have excavated? They couldn’t reproduce fast enough or in sufficient numbers to keep up with the rate at which we slaughtered them. And all this without the aid of a single elephant gun. Thus did we dominate our earth.
But Harari doesn’t stop there. What’s the next stage? Obviously AI, where our own inventions will produce “fundamental transformations in human consciousness and identity.” And with the possibility of replacing our biological parts with mechanical and electronic ones, we maybe could become, not immortal, but as he terms it “amortal”. Beings whose longevity will extend far beyond anything we’ve been able to achieve so far.
Between you and me I’m not enough of a “Homo Sapien” to think that would be a good thing. But maybe I’m just in a sort of neanderthal stage and can’t appreciate the possibilities.
April 6, 2022
Most impactful books I've read in awhile. Really helps you steep deep with our species history and where we just might be headed (gulp). I found a lot of mystery and grace in his writing about what it means to be a homo sapien, and i appreciated that. Apparently some find these books terribly depressing. I'd wager that's from the category of people who don't think our poop stinks as much as other animals.
October 19, 2025
Sped through this book. Started off as an interesting history of economics and currency but ended in a fascinating albeit unnerving critic of modern liberalism and the changes likely to take place with the rising AI. I haven’t been genuinely unnerved/freaked by a nonfiction book like this for a WHILE. What’s more interesting is this book was written in 2015 but the future that Harari predicts is already emerging making this book all the more affecting.
GOOD BOOK
GOOD BOOK
January 18, 2024
Excelentes, recomiendo 100% los 2 primeros, y el tercero es tomar un poco de cada uno de los otros y sumar un par de reflexiones que no suman casi nada. Si lees solamente el tercero no está nada mal, pero si lees los otros 2 me parece totalmente al pedo el último. Igual espectaculares los análisis que hace el tipo, me encantaron.
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July 4, 2020Now, I´m finishing to read the part of human searching for hapiness on the basis of psicological expectations or biological and biochemical aspects. Happiness may be no so important as we think due to we are not able to always be happy.... #HomoDeus
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July 17, 2020A concept so well thought off and very relevant for todays day and age. Each book is a great read in itself.
21 lessons is my fav as v r in a day and age living it.
The concepts discussed in them are so close to reality that almost feels like a prediction come true.
21 lessons is my fav as v r in a day and age living it.
The concepts discussed in them are so close to reality that almost feels like a prediction come true.
February 4, 2021
Storia, presente e futuro raccontati con una maestria impressionante: Il ritmo della lettura è sempre più incalzante, e finisci per divorarli!
Leggi Harari e cominci a vedere le cose sotto altri molteplici punti di vista. Da leggere assolutamente!
Leggi Harari e cominci a vedere le cose sotto altri molteplici punti di vista. Da leggere assolutamente!
October 8, 2021
It’s the most pleasurable read ever, I came across so many beautiful sentences. It unleashed a new avenue of thought, when I was not reading it, I was thinking about what I read. Best book. Read it twice.
April 1, 2020
Although there's a fair bit of overlap between books, Mr Harari has well developed lessons from history that are often uncomfortable but well founded in history and much needed in public debate
June 9, 2020
This trilogy gave me a new understanding of the world. It was truly mind-blowing and some of my favourite books of all time.
July 11, 2020
what a mind. listen to his interviews
July 22, 2020
Sehr gutes Buch
November 15, 2020
text book quality in a novel quality pace
November 16, 2020
Can’t speak highly enough about these books. Harari is next level intelligent.
February 4, 2021
The absolute.
November 26, 2021
MUST READ COLLECTION for 21st century Minds
February 21, 2022
My favorite triology ever
October 16, 2022
Obrigatório
November 30, 2022
These books are incredible!!
I hope there will be more published by Mr. Harari.
I hope there will be more published by Mr. Harari.
May 2, 2023
Excellent book to know about the historical and the world conditions.
October 11, 2023
Ampliar conocimientos un poco de todo
June 1, 2024
3 of my most informative and enlightening books.
June 19, 2024
Classic
September 22, 2025
Buku ini sangat bagus krna menggambarkan tentang akibat dr banyak ny kematian di masa lalu dan masa sekarang yg di akibatkan oleh manusia itu sendiri
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