*Yuval Noah Harari* # Progressive Summary Information networks help to create truth and order. Sometimes these goals oppose each other. Information has been encoded in 2 main ways. Stories and lists. The human mind has evolved to remember stories well. But it doesn't do so well with lists. That's why it's hard for us to figure out what's going on in a bureaucracy. Bureaucracy literally means desk-drawer governance. Its approach to creating order is by categorising things into the appropriate drawer. # Definitions # Chapter Notes # Quotes # References