9 June 2025 – Baldur Bjarnason (This is loosely based on a couple of social media threads I posted last week, made longer and more tedious with added detail.) One of the major turning points in my life was reading my dad’s copy of Robert Cialdini’s Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion as a teenager. Other highlights of my dad’s library – he was a organisational psychologist before he retired – included books by Fanon, Illich, and Goffman and a bunch on systems thinking and systems theory so, ...