Glad you found the book interesting and great you mentioned the written text, I added a link to it in the description.

I tend to take notes while listening, so I used a pdf version of it for several passages (with the help of ctrl+f) to go to at a later time. Also, there are gems in the bibliography for digging deeper.

Thank you very much for the suggestion. I didn't know David Christian so I looked him up a bit. I have to admit that his Big History approach doesn't seem to fit my current interests and I'll try to briefly explain why.

I had read some parts of the dawn of everything but going through it in a more systematic way, I found fascinating (I can be very enthusiastic lol) that it provides a new narrative on how human societies have experimented with different modes of organising. This reframing breaks the well known linear one (from nomads to farmers, from feudalism to capitalism, and all its variations). More or less, the alternative narrative it presents - through prehistorical and historical examples - is that humans have been trying out different ways of organisation in a way that is not related to the linear model, which is also a Eurocentric fiction.

It seems to me that David Christian's approach is very linear. On top of this, he puts cosmology in the mix of this linearity of human development, which doesn't sound too promising to me. Just to be clear, I'm not dismissing it, I only spent an hour of so on it.

Anyways, currently I am trying unlearn this linear way of approaching human history and prehistory, because I believe it helps my imagination (for understanding, creative solutions, change etc). Something like that.