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Sapiens
Shared stories can coordinate strangers at a scale that individual trust cannot.
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Pragmatic review
Harari offers a panoramic introduction to how humans organise around agriculture, money, religion and political institutions. Its practical value is the connection between belief and coordination: teams and states depend on conventions people collectively accept. Use it to examine the story supporting an institution rather than merely its formal rules.
WTM Signal Review
WTM’s judgement: a strong opening map, with a scale that can compress disagreement and regional variation. A sweeping narrative is not a substitute for specialised history. Ask whose experience disappears when a system is explained through one dominant story, then read a contrasting account alongside it.
One practical next step
List three shared assumptions holding one organisation together; identify which has evidence and which rests on convention.
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