Notes for Clarity

Contemplations and Conversation Starters for the Curious Mind

Yuval Noah Harari

History as Data, Not Destiny

Thinker:Yuval Noah Harari

Summary

Harari reframes history not as an inevitable march, but as billions of individual decisions compounded over time. Like a massive collaborative spreadsheet, human choices—rational and irrational—feed into unpredictable results. This invites us to see history’s arc as a shared artifact, emphasizing our potential agency, not pre-set patterns.

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