Yuval Trivia

https://www.ted.com/speakers/yuval_noah_harari

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Dear bloggy, 

Today I am continuing with the streak of writing blogs for the fifth consecutive day. I feel that I am back in business and with the beginning of Connect the Dots soon @ RR, I feel that I will have something to post every day. Today was a hectic day with the workshop on Mechanics of Thesis Writing but I was aware of the importance of this post and I was getting ready. I had this article which appeared in the International New York Times about Yuval and I was able to finish reading it as I sat there listening to the speakers of the day. Whenever I got time, I read this article and was able to finish it by the time seminar got over for the day.  So what I plan to do is to post a lightweight blog post from the article which I read today which is titled – Tech C.E.O’s are in love with the Principal Doomsayer. I am skipping the heavy weight thoughts for another day. Today I will share about the other side of the author whom I adore – Yuval Noah Harari. 

1. He has a PhD from Oxford.
2. He is 42 years old.
3. He is an Israeli philosopher and History professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
4. Mr Harari grew up in Kiryat Ata, near Haifa and his father worked in the arms industry.
5. His mother who was working in an office now helps her son in handling the mail.
6. Yuval gets about 1000 messages every week.
7. He is gay, and his husband is Itzik Yahav. Yahav’s mother is their accountant. 
8. Ridley Scott and documentarian Asif Kapadia are adapting Sapiens into a TV show. 
9. Mr Harari is working on a children’s books to reach a broader audience. 
10. The couple is vegan and Harari is sensitive to animals. 
11. The couple watches TV every day. 
12. In December Harari plans to enter an ashram outside Mumbai for 60 days of silence.
13. He believes in the word – Detached – He says, “If I was a superhuman, my superpower would be detachment.” 

The ideas presented above are from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/business/yuval-noah-harari-silicon-valley.html