The Dilbert future
by Scott Adams · first published 1997
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Scott Adams talks about Affirmations here: http://www.mindhacks.org/2007/01/18/scott-adams-affirmations... A friend showed me the chapter at the end of The Dilbert Future - I definitely recommend giving it a once over.
on “The Dilbert Blog: The Secret - Is success socially contagious?” ↗Or as Scott Adams expressed it in chapter 1 of "The Dilbert Future": Good trend: Computers allow us to work 100% faster Unexpected bad thing: Computers generate 300 percent more work
on “What is the point of imagining new technologies without new ways of living?” ↗…were actually upset about Janet Jackson showing her breasts on television, but politicians around the country reacted with outrage. Fortunately this trend will be short lived. In Scott Adams' book The Dilbert Future there is an anecdote about why all politicians seem to be crooks. The possible reasons he gives are 1. Crooks are the only ones who run for office 2. Politics turns people into criminals 3. All politicians…
on “How To Defend Your Reputation ” ↗I think Scott Adams said something like this in The Dilbert Future; he claimed that privacy in the future won't be a huge issue because we're all so boring.
on “Gay on Facebook: Nowhere to Hide” ↗Scott Adams wrote in The Dilbert Future that life would become more like Star Trek. I heard once that the imagination of science fiction is the same imagination of innovation. That life becomes more and more like science fiction because actually…
on “The surprising accuracy of Minority Report 10 years later” ↗This might be relevant: In Scott Adams' The Dilbert Future (1997), he introduced the word confusopoly. The word is a portmanteau of confusion and monopoly (or rather oligopoly), defining it as "a group of companies with similar products who intentionally confuse…
on “The coming retail apocalypse: some axioms” ↗Adams has been a loon for a long time, his Dilbert Future book talks about his personal philosophy which is straight up "Name it and claim it" theology except without the Jesus. Adams basically attributes all his good fortune to his own talent and hard work.…
…price". Examples of industries in which confusopolies exist (according to Adams) include telephone service, insurance, mortgage loans, banking, and financial services." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dilbert_Future
on “Come 2010, the battle of the App Stores is just beginning..” ↗Read ----- The Unwritten Laws of Engineering - King & Skakoon The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things - Bruce Sterling The Dilbert Future : Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons - Scott Adams The Straight Dope Tells All Currently Reading The Mahabharata - This is an epic Tubes: A…
on “Ask HN: What is HN reading?” ↗In fact, Scott Adams proposed this in The Dilbert Future as a workplace scheme to improve productivity (he called it 'OA5'). He may be accurate in thinking it's up to the employer to destigmatise leaving 'early' (when in fact it's a symptom of an employee having…
on “I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (2011)” ↗I'm glad someone else has noticed the profound weirdness of "The Dilbert Future." I stopped taking Scott Adams seriously a few minutes after reading it. I haven't looked at it since high school (in the 90's -- eek), but IIRC he also believes that his thoughts control the direction…
on “Science’s Biggest Fail” ↗…they got their jobs is because they are embarrassed to admit luck was involved. I can't blame them. Typically, the pre-luck part of their careers involved doing something enormously pathetic. -- "The Dilbert Future", by Scott Adams
on “Survivorship bias and startup hype” ↗…they got their jobs is because they are embarrassed to admit luck was involved. I can't blame them. Typically, the pre-luck part of their careers involved doing something enormously pathetic. -- "The Dilbert Future" (1997), by Scott Adams
on “Software Engineering at Google” ↗The Dilbert Future (1997), apparently (ref https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Adams_knows_The_Se...)
on “'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams dies at 68 after prostate cancer battle” ↗This reminds me of a bit from "The Dilbert Future" (1997): > Most people won't admit how they got their current jobs unless you push them up against a built-in wall unit and punch them in the stomach until they spill their drink and start yelling, "I'LL…
on “Paul Graham on Doing Things Right by Accident” ↗