Big Picture People (BPPers) make great authors. They are able to explain things in a way that make sense often tying together things we know and things we don’t to offer clarity on topics we want to understand. Yuval Harari is a BPPer and responsible for Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. These are books I own and that impressed me. Unfortunately, these are books I bought to listen to and not to read. I am able to learn by listening, but it has to be like it was in college when I would sit and take notes and not while I listen and walk or drive or worse yet when I listen for 30 minutes before I fall asleep.
I encourage you to listen to this episode of from the Your undivided attention podcast series. It is one of the better explanations of why people are willing to ignore factual truth and seize on a story that moves them. Why is it things were different in 2016 and how the strange behavior of folks who obviously think differently than I do were collectively activated by social media.
BTW – Harari also has a graphic history of Sapiens if the book or the podcast don’t do it for you.
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