Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
2011Yuval Noah Harari
A sweeping account of how Homo sapiens came to dominate the planet through shared myths and cooperation.
Books
Reading notes and shelves of books that shaped how I think.
The Three-Body Problem
2008Liu Cixin
A hard science-fiction epic that begins with the Cultural Revolution and ends with the fate of the cosmos.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
2011Daniel Kahneman
A tour of the two systems that drive the way we think, and the biases that shape our decisions.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
1962Thomas S. Kuhn
How paradigm shifts — not gradual accumulation — drive the progress of science.