Hello boys and girls, ladies and gents. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris show.

My guest today, many of you will know the name and those who don't, will know much more about him shortly.

Professor Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, a best-selling author who is considered one of the most

influential public intellectuals in the world. I know that's setting a high bar, but his popular

books might ring a bell, Sapiens, a brief history of humankind, homodeus, a brief history of tomorrow,

and 21 lessons for the 21st century have sold 27 and a half million copies roughly in 60 languages.

I'll let that sink in for people, 27.5 million copies. That is a lot of square footage or

that's a cubic cubic feet cubic meters. They've been recommended by Barack Obama, Chris Evans, Bill Gates

and many others. He's also behind Sapiens, a graphic history, which we'll talk about, a brand new

graphic novel series in collaboration with comic artists David Vander Mulein, I think,

co-writer and Daniel Kassanave, the illustrator. This beautifully illustrated series is a radical

reworking of his book Sapiens, subtitle, a brief history of humankind. The series will be published

in four volumes, starting with volume one, The Birth of Humankind, which is available now,

his website ynharari.harri.com. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,

on Twitter, Harari, underscore you all. We'll link to all the rest of them at Timed up Log, Slash Podcasts.

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