One I’m thinking of right now is Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of persuasion. Its a really good breakdown of the 6 or so main tactics / psychological shortcuts that we all rely on because its hard-wired into us, but are really easily manipulated by either salesppl, media, pundits, etc. Its an academic book that’s really fun because its written by a prof of psychology who went undercover for a bunch of years as a salesmen in different fields to learn these are, as well as pairing that with a lot of psychological studies, and historical oddities of behavior seem strange at first until you know which shortcut they’re relying on.
Pictures are bad enough, I don’t think I’d want to turn lemmy into a file store. Best to use torrents for pdfs / files in general, then they’re redundantly shared forever.
One I’m thinking of right now is Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of persuasion. Its a really good breakdown of the 6 or so main tactics / psychological shortcuts that we all rely on because its hard-wired into us, but are really easily manipulated by either salesppl, media, pundits, etc. Its an academic book that’s really fun because its written by a prof of psychology who went undercover for a bunch of years as a salesmen in different fields to learn these are, as well as pairing that with a lot of psychological studies, and historical oddities of behavior seem strange at first until you know which shortcut they’re relying on.
Offtopic but do you think we could attach PDFs like we can attach images and gifs? Within a reasonable filesize limit, maybe 15 MB.
Pictures are bad enough, I don’t think I’d want to turn lemmy into a file store. Best to use torrents for pdfs / files in general, then they’re redundantly shared forever.