This was much easier to imbibe than his book on the origin of time.

I thought these lessons were detailed enough to pique but not so painstaking as to overwhelm.

I think the most interesting lesson was #7, ourselves. If everything is made of standard grains, moving only one direction in time, with limited building blocks, how have we become conscious? How are we all so unique?

This is a great read without any formulas (wait...Maybe the one for entropy) and more philosophical and ontological musing than stifling, crippling mathematics.