Scott Adams: In his own words
There is no such thing as absolute success. Success only has meaning in relation to other things. For example, my book, God’s Debris, is ranked #8 on a recent Amazon.com best seller list in the Religious Studies – Psychology category. That doesn’t seem like much of a success until you notice who placed…
Read MoreIf your firewall blocks the image, try seeing it on Twitter. If you are not from around here, you probably don’t know that Google’s self-driving cars are a daily sighting in Mountainview California. In Top Tech Blog: – Super capacitors are coming and that’s a big deal. – A head-cooling helmet that gets us one…
Read MoreI got this complaint in my email today. This gentleman says my calendars used to be funny but they no longer are. Read top to bottom to see my response. —- incoming email —- Hi There. I want to share my thoughts on the current [Dilbert] calendar block I am…
Read MoreIf you can’t see the image because of your company’s firewall, see it on Twitter here. In Top Tech Blog: Here comes a little company that is about to change the world with a small device that scans your food and tells you what is in it. You might be saying this is no…
Read MoreIf your company firewall is blocking the image, see it here on Twitter. This comic is an example of what I call an “engineered solution” joke. You construct this type of joke by combining two unrelated things (El Chapo and commuter train service) and then show how one “solves” for the other. The thing…
Read MoreQ: What do Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and Samsung all have in common? A: Their business models involve interrupting you all day long. Individually, each company’s interruptions are trivial. You can easily ignore them. But cumulatively, the interruptions from these and other companies can be crippling. In the economy of…
Read MoreBusiness Insider has a an interesting article on 22 surprising facts about Americans. Some of those facts sure surprised me. For example, here are two bits from the same article. That sounds about right to me. Then add the other religions and you’re probably above 80%. Maybe as high as 90% according to…
Read More[Ignore this post. Question answered. I had accidentally unzoomed the page sometime in the past, apparently. Didn’t know Chrome can do page-only zoom. Nice! Thanks to all commenters for pointing me the right direction.] Does anyone else have trouble reading this page using Chrome on a Mac laptop? (OSX: Yosemite…
Read MoreYou might have seen a quote on the Internet that is mistakenly attributed to me. It looks like this: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams People like that quote so much that they have turned it into countless colorful…
Read MoreA typical start-up created by an inexperienced entrepreneur has about a 10% chance of success. But if that same entrepreneur pivots, or starts a second company, the odds of the next venture succeeding jumps to about 20%. And that makes sense because you learn a lot during your first failure,…
Read MoreYou have probably seen smartphone apps that purport to find ghosts in your environment. Usually there is some sort of radar-looking interface and fake science to it. It’s all silly and harmless. But let me tell you about the ghost-finding app that someone is certain to make in the next…
Read MoreIn my prior post, Jimmy Akin provided the seed argument against physician-assisted death that I will pass through what I call the Rationality Engine. I have reduced Jimmy’s extensive arguments, along with other notable thoughts on the topic, into “claims” which I will soon evaluate for a verdict. Today I hope you…
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Read MoreIf 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 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…
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