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Sapiens

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100,000 years ago Earth had 6 human species. Today: 1. Here's how we won and lost.
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Neanderthals had bigger brains.
We won one thing they couldn't:
the ability to believe in things that aren't there.

Gods. Nations. Money. Companies.
Shared fiction is the operating system of civilization.

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READ STACKSSUMMARYRead in 2 min, 11 slides.from Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari
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READ STACKS100,000 years ago,Earth had at least six human species.Neanderthals in Europe.Denisovans in Asia.Floresiensis in Indonesia.Today there is one.Why?from Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari
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READ STACKSThe other humans weren't dumber.Neanderthals had bigger brains.We won one thing they couldn't do:believe in thingsthat aren't there.Gods. Nations. Money. Companies.from Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari
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The idea
READ STACKSTwo strangers can't trust each other.Two Christians can.Two dollar-holders can.Two Apple employees can.Shared fictionis why we coordinate at scale.No other species does this.from Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari
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READ STACKSAgriculture is history's biggest fraud.Foragers worked four hours a day.Farmers worked twelve.We domesticated wheat.Wheat domesticated us —into its full-time servants.from Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari
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The idea
READ STACKSMoney is the most successful storyever told.It has no calories. No use-value.It's a shared hallucination.And yet every Christian, Muslim,Hindu, and atheist accepts it —without argument.from Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari
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READ STACKSCapitalism isn't an economic theory.It's a religion.Its core belief: growth is good.Always. Forever.Questioning growthfeels like heresy.That's the signal.from Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari
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READ STACKSAre we happier than foragers?More comfortable, yes.Lonelier, almost certainly.We traded the tribefor the supermarket —and never askedif the trade was fair.from Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari
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READ STACKSHomo sapiens isn't done.We're now editing our own genome.Replacing our limbs with metal.Letting algorithmschoose our partners.The last 70,000 years was an opening.The sequel begins now.from Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari
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READ STACKSHarari's gut-punch:we became gods of our planetbefore we figured outwhat we want.That's the danger.Not extinction —incoherence at scale.from Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari
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READ STACKSThat's the story so far.All 21 Sapiens chapters — free in bio.Save for the question:which storyare you living in?from Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari
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