https://blog.georgefabish.com/tags/sapiens/ Recent content in Sapiens on George's Blog Hugo en-US Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/sapiens-a-brief-history-of-humankind/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:31 -0500 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/sapiens-a-brief-history-of-humankind/ <p>This was a sort of rando pick I made but was definitely the best book I&rsquo;ve read this year. There is a well-known guy in the computer science community who coined this idea that code quality can be judged by the &ldquo;number of WTFs/minute&rdquo; the person coming behind that code has. Well, I&rsquo;d like to say that when it comes to a book like this, the quality of it can be judged by how many times your mind gets blown by a unique thought or viewpoint that I haven&rsquo;t had. This book has hundreds of those. In a nutshell this book outlines science&rsquo;s best &ldquo;story&rdquo; about the development of man in the following stages</p>