Origin Story A Big History of Everything

The idea of big history is great (and the topics endlessly fascinating) but the execution is a bit less so. Reading is kind of dry and would be much better with at least some charts/images (and it is indeed based on the very visual https://www.bighistoryproject.com, meant for younger audiences I think). Topics are not covered in much depth, but that is not surprising for a book that tries to cover the history of the universe. What I hoped for was some kind of narrative that connects history at all scales - the author tries introducing some concepts like entropy tax but it doesn't really do it for me. The book ends with a environmentalist call for decisiveness in dealing with the world's limited resources. It's a good cause but the rest of the book doesn't really bring the reader to the inevitability of that conclusion.

Among somewhat similar books, I liked Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything and Harari's Sapiens way better. You're probably better off reading these or seeing bighistoryproject.com.