Hooray!!!

I didn’t like the man, he was a self important, pompous ass obsessed with how smart he was that fought to bring my country to its current state. But he did make the world far weirder for his being in it. Rest in something you goddamn freak, may you be remembered for the dilburrito

Edit, forgot to acknowledge the racism. I’d already been mocking him for so long when he went full bore on it so it slipped my mind. Absolute piece of shit he was. Unintentionally funny sometimes though

Really nice weather out today

So I’m having tacos for dinner

Scott Adams died today. I want to acknowledge something complicated.

He always felt culturally like family to me. His peaks—the biting humor about corporate absurdity, the writing on systems thinking and compounding habits, the clarity about the gap between what organizations say and what they do—unquestionably made me healthier, happier, and wealthier. If you worked in tech in the 90s and 2000s, Dilbert was a shared language for everything broken about corporate life.

His views, always unapologetic, became more strident over time and pushed everyone away. That also felt like family.

You don’t choose family, and you don’t get to edit out the parts that shaped you before you understood what was happening. The racism and the provocations were always there, maybe, just quieter. The 2023 comments that ended Dilbert’s newspaper run were unambiguous.

For Scott, like family, I’m a better person for the contribution. I hope I can represent the good things: the humor, the clarity of thought, the compounding good habits with health and money. I can avoid the ugliness—the racism, the grievance, the need to be right at any cost.

Taking inventory is harder than eulogizing or denouncing. But it’s more honest.

HN comment

Of course he has to fall back on Pascal’s Wager. Fucking cons are always willing to lie to themselves in order to benefit themselves.