
baldurbjarnason.com
May 15, 2026
22 min read
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Summary
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born When I was living in the UK, one of the more common responses people had to me being Icelandic – beyond the strangely common “I hate Björk” refrain – was some comment about Vikings or Norse mythology. I’m guessing my name helped prompt those. We all have very traditional Icelandic names in my family. If the comment caught me at the wrong ti...