Remembering Scott Adams
Scott Adams understood business, and especially its innate absurdities, better than anyone else in the world. That’s why his Dilbert comic strips were so right-on and popular. He also correctly predicted the results of the 2016 election (as did I), but I think he was off-base on why. I think he was also wrong about a lot of other stuff, which was why I stopped paying attention to him (although I did read and enjoy his book Win Bigly, even though I disagreed with some of that too). From what I’m now reading about his health, the last year or more of his life was almost pure misery. His passing today, while in some ways a blessing (he had earlier talked of taking suicide drugs), is a huge loss. He was a one-of-one, and there will never be another.
Divide and —?
Axios: “The nation is splitting into three distinct economic realities: the Have-Nots (stalling) … the Haves (coasting) … and the Have-Lots (rocketing to greater wealth)…This shift, if it holds, will rattle economics, politics and AI throughout 2026 and beyond. We’re already seeing it in rising inequality, pessimism about the future and AI opposition.”
So mark me down as doubtful.
Facebook invites me “to start making money with our new content monetization program.” Guess that means their AI hadn’t been trained on the large corpus of things I’ve written about creepy adtech and why it needs to die.
Mortal words
Thousands of years ago, in the late ’80s, President George H. W. Bush was a guest on Rush Limbaugh’s talk show. After a caller criticized Bush and his policies at great length, Bush didn’t defend anything. He just said, “Guess I’ll mark you down as doubtful, fella,” and moved on to the next call. Hence the subhead for the item above.
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