Scott Adams: In his own words
Background: In a recent post I complained about both my old iPhone 3GS and my new Android phone. Brandon Watson, Senior Director of Windows Phone Apps challenged me to test a Windows phone. If I didn’t like it better than the iPhone and the Android, he would donate $1,000 to…
Read MoreI looked for a nice book to read on the plane. I couldn’t find one. What’s up with that? There are nine trillion books in the world and I couldn’t find a single one that I imagined would interest me for more than a paragraph. I blame the Internet. I…
Read MoreI remember when my only communication device was a phone connected to the wall. I’m old! Then came wireless handsets. They seemed so space age. I was untethered! I could wander all over the entire living room without dropping a call. The bedroom was too far for the signal to…
Read MoreThe fascinating thing about being batshit crazy is that often you’re the only one who isn’t aware of it. That’s why I sometimes like to take a step back and seriously consider the hypothesis that the reason people disagree with me is that I’m an idiot and I don’t realize…
Read MoreUpdate: A writer for Jezebel has accepted my offer. Look for updates as they happen. Lately I have been getting many complaints about this blog from the LRC (Low Reading Comprehension) Community, mostly on my Pegs and Holes post from last week. Here’s a sampling. Huffington Post Salon Mediabistro Mediate…
Read MoreIf you have a round peg that doesn’t fit in a square hole, do you blame the peg or the hole? You probably blame neither. We don’t assign blame to inanimate objects. But you might have some questions about the person who provided you with these mismatched items and set…
Read MoreWe humans start our lives at the peak of your popularity. Everyone loves babies. The trouble starts when we learn to speak. Talking is the process by which we transform from adorable to insufferable. The more we talk, the less appealing we become. No topic is safe. If things are…
Read MoreWarning: This blog is written for a rational audience that likes to have fun wrestling with unique or controversial points of view. It is written in a style that can easily be confused as advocacy or opinion. It is not intended to change anyone’s beliefs or actions. If you quote from…
Read MoreDid you see the reports of my scandalous behavior on the Internet? The headlines say “Scott Adams Caught Defending Himself Anonymously on Metafilter!” The stories go on to explain that I was posting under the name PlannedChaos and pretending to be the only person in the world who doesn’t hate…
Read MoreSome of you might have seen my opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday on the topic of teaching entrepreneurial skills to kids. It was inspired by a blog post you might have seen here. As I wrote the article, I wondered why our school system is so mismatched to…
Read MoreI have an idea for making lots of money but I’m too lazy and frightened to do it myself. The idea is to become a consumer advocate against a confusopoly. A confusopoly is any group of companies in a particular industry that intentionally confuses customers about their pricing plans and…
Read MoreI’m not a gamer. I’m not even a casual game player. But the other day I decided to try a game called Angry Birds just to see why it’s so popular. I wasn’t expecting to like it. I was wrong. The game is instantly addictive. But why? Or more generally,…
Read MoreOver at Salon.com, the poorly informed are in full unibation mode over their shared hallucinations of my Men’s Rights post. I trotted over to set things right, intending to have my usual fun, but their registration system is either broken or for some other reason failing to send me an…
Read MoreThere’s no derogatory label for people who label others. This creates an imbalance in the linguistic arsenal. Example: Person 1: “If you don’t watch sports, you’re a racist.” Person 2: “Oh yeah? Well, you’re…a…person who assigns labels that are not sensible!” See what I mean? It’s like being…
Read MoreThis weekend the top twitter meme in the solar system, at least for a few hours, involved Feminist blogs calling me an ignorant, misogynist asshole. Meanwhile, over on the Men’s Rights blogs, I’m being called a wussy, asshole, douche bag. There is still some debate on those sites as to…
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