Scott Adams: In his own words
If your firewall is blocking the image you can see it here on Twitter. Humor Dimensions: clever, mean, recognizable Predicted sharing: High This one has no naughty elements to prevent sharing. The political point is generic and will not cause divisions. Themes about people being dumb perform the best coming from me. Golf is…
Read MoreCalifornia’s politicians are considering legislation on assisted dying. I plan to get involved in the debate but I have one problem: I can’t find anyone who is against it. Can you help me find a human with an opposing opinion? If such a human exists, he or she must be…
Read MoreI believe the Era of Humans will end in my organic lifetime. I expect to see the first humans transfer their minds into non-organic vessels (meaning software, maybe robot bodies) within twenty years. In fifty years, no human will want to suffer through an organic lifestyle. It just won’t make…
Read MoreIf your firewall is blocking the image, see it on Twitter here. Humor Dimensions: Recognition, mean, clever, bizarre Brevity: Good (could lose the word “have” in first panel) Inappropriateness: High (bathroom humor) Predicted Twitter Response: Expect lots of retweets despite bathroom humor because the message about nutrition is important to folks and the naughtiness is softened…
Read MoreHow hard is it to write three sentences for my experimental web comic Robots Read News? Probably harder than it looks. I think of the writing process as having about eighteen layers. And one of those layers has six dimensions. If you get any of it wrong, your writing lays on…
Read MoreBusiness Insider asked me to describe my morning routine. You might be interested in how rigidly I control my body and my environment to invite creativity in.
Read MoreHow hard is it to write three sentences for my experimental web comic Robots Read News? Probably harder than it looks. I think of the writing process as having about eighteen layers. And one of those layers has six dimensions. If you get any of it wrong, your writing lays on…
Read More[Updated 3/26/15 with result] Today I bring you a Robots Read News episode engineered to get a healthy number of “favorites” on Twitter but relatively few retweets. The hypothesis is that people enjoy dark humor but they are cautious about associating with it, and wisely so. If your corporate firewall is blocking this,…
Read More[3/25/15 FINAL UPDATE and Verdict at end of post] Against all odds, it appears my post last week on gender bias in the workplace has been accepted as “balanced” by both the feminist side and the Red Pill guys on Reddit. I am confident no one saw that coming. [I scrubbed…
Read MoreBackground: In a recent post I expressed confusion and ignorance about gender bias in the workplace. I asked how it could be true that studies consistently show bias against woman while studies on pay gap do not reflect that bias (according to strangers on the the Internet). Clearly someone is wrong….
Read MoreIf every new idea you encounter reminds you of a movie, song, or novel that you have consumed in the past, it might be holding you back. Movies and books form a mental structure in your head of what is possible and what is not. But these are artificial structures…
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