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Scott Adams's personal blog at scottadamssays.com covers culture and philosophy. Since 2019, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “Goals vs. Systems (2013)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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35HN people?
2019–2023first – last linked?
Most-linked posts?
- Goals vs. Systems (2013)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-12-29
- A Message for Children About Climate Change3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-23
- /2019/04/30/the-fine-people-hoax-funnel/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-25
- /2015/08/22/the-day-you-became-a-better-writer-2nd-look/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-24
- Goals vs. Systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-20
What Hacker News says?
All these seem like "fake becauses"[0]. Forget the rest, the NYTimes and the WaPo can certainly afford a team of public editors, if nothing else but for the long-term credibility of their own institutions, never mind the side benefit of keeping them honest. [0]: https://www.scottadamssays.com/2016/01/28/the-fake-because/
Comment linking /2016/01/28/the-fake-because/
on “I Am Deleting the Blog”Submitted Goals vs. Systems (2013) as a story · 41 points
HN discussionI'd love to believe that myself. I absolutely hate ineffective & irrelevant search results. See Scott Adams, "Confusopoly" (2011): https://www.scottadamssays.com/2011/12/07/online-confusopoly... I've touched on this: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/243in1/privacy... The antipattern is sufficiently widely adopted that I've been. looking for possible dark-pattern justifications.
Comment linking /2011/12/07/online-confusopoly/
on “Shirt Without Stripes”Submitted A Message for Children About Climate Change as a story · 13 points
HN discussionScott Adams did, but not quite 10 years in advance. Check out his blog about a year before the election. Edit: here's just one example. It goes earlier than this. https://www.scottadamssays.com/2015/09/23/the-reason-for-tru...
Comment linking /2015/09/23/the-reason-for-trumps-success/
on “Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)”Submitted I Hope My Father Dies Soon (2013) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionScott Adam’s says some pretty bizarre things in public on his blog and on his podcast. He wrote about causing his readers to orgasm via his words.[0] The tone was not that of a person with a healthy attitude towards sexuality. I found it unpleasant and gross. He’s also expressed some pretty odd ideas. From the same link: > Regular readers know that I used my background in hypnosis to accurately predict nine-out-nine…
Comment linking /2015/12/31/hypnotizing-you-to-have-the-best-new-years-day/
on “Life after an internet mob attack”Submitted The Illusion of Winning (2010) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRelated to this is Scott Adams' Goals vs. Systems - https://www.scottadamssays.com/2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/
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on “How a lazy bitch like me learned to be productive”Submitted Scott Adams on Creativity (2011) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNice!This is insightful and actionable. This reminded me of Scott Adams' advice on writing too: https://www.scottadamssays.com/2015/08/22/the-day-you-became...
Comment linking /2015/08/22/the-day-you-became-a-better-writer-2nd-look/
on “To Get More Replies, Say Less (2017)”Submitted A Message for Children About Climate Change as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAll right. Let me respond point by point. > > It's not just the Trump thing. He loves to butt heads with the social justice types in a way that makes him look awful. Wrote some creepy antifemist blog-posts too. > https://ew.com/article/2011/03/30/dilbert-scott-adams-femini... That article, about a blog post of his, is a hit piece which takes the most inflammatory-sounding quote and displays it out of context. I thin…
Comment linking /2011/03/27/im-a-what/
on “The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read”Submitted Goals vs. Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWeren't everyone's predictions wrong in 2016? I remember news organizations like the New York Times saying that Clinton had a 91% chance of winning the election.[1] 538's Nate Silver said that Clinton had a 99% chance of winning.[2] Scott Adams has many faults, but his 2016 election prediction fared better than pretty much everyone else. Remember he predicted a "win against Clinton in a tight election" in August of…
Comment linking /2015/08/13/clown-genius/
on “The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all”That’s yet another quote taken wildly out of context. Context explained here: https://www.scottadamssays.com/2011/03/27/im-a-what/
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on “The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all”If you want it from Adams himself, here’s a link to a blog post: https://www.scottadamssays.com/2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/ Alternatively, as a ~5-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwcKTYvupJw
Comment linking /2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/
on “The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all”Not understanding that is at the core of the teachings of the alt-right thought leaders. It's actually formalised under the concept of "The Adams Law of Slow-Moving Disasters"[0] by the Dilbert's creator, who himself is very active in these politics, which is ironic because the law actually recognises the existence of the diverted threats but the application of the law on the current dangers is preached as "relax, n…
Comment linking /2015/01/22/adams-law-of-slow-moving-disasters-update/
on “A Solarpunk Manifesto”It could have been cognitive dissonance. Certain segments of the population couldn't possibly be dismissing this virus as no worse than the flu, could they? https://www.scottadamssays.com/2020/03/05/episode-840-scott-... "Nobody under 70 has died, and over 700 people infected on that ship. So that's impressive." That's just from randomly seeking through one of his recordings.
Comment linking /2020/03/05/episode-840-scott-adams-conversation-with-naval-ravikant-about-coronavirus/
on “Exponential Growth and Covid-19 [video]”There's a bit more detail in his book but this first resonated with me when I read Scott Adams' "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life". Here are some of his blog posts on it: https://www.scottadamssays.com/2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/ https://www.scottadamssays.com/2014/01/21/goals-are-for-lose... Personally, I don't really think of it as goals and habits being mutually ex…
Comment linking /2014/01/21/goals-are-for-losers-passion-is-bull/
on “You Are Not ‘Behind’ (2016)”this could be the link... Analogies are Fighting Words - update - Scott Adams Says https://www.scottadamssays.com/analogies-are-fighting-words-... though it looks like the content has been updated(removed)
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on “Instagram has largely replaced TikTok in India”As Scott Adam says, ["Analogies are fighting words."]( https://www.scottadamssays.com/post/102881499176/analogies-a... )
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on “Instagram has largely replaced TikTok in India”Medical equipment and software. It's over engineered. It needs to break more. But you could just say the idea is playing to medical regulation and a dumb public. So the answer is any company that pivots. ie. Youtube - https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/308975 OT: Scott Adams tried to sell an idea - https://www.scottadamssays.com/2012/10/01/selling-an-idea/ Read it and follow it up how he went. It might interest yo…
Comment linking /2012/10/01/selling-an-idea/
on “Billion Dollar Startup Ideas [video]”It will happen when it has to. Look into Scott Adams law of slow moving disasters. https://www.scottadamssays.com/2013/04/15/fact-checking-adam... To sum it up, whenever humans see a problem coming in the distant future, they find a way to solve it in time. Y2K is a great example of this: when stories about the effects of Y2K were popularized, some people thought that there would be no way to fix so many millions of…
Comment linking /2013/04/15/fact-checking-adams-law-of-slow-moving-disasters/
on “Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them”> I’m also short, bald, and near-sighted. People try shaming me for that stuff on a regular basis. But it doesn’t work because I lost all sense of shame some time ago. In my world view, shame is nothing but a filter some people put on their own observations. –Scott Adams https://www.scottadamssays.com/2016/04/01/shame-shaming/ > Trump admitted he was wrong to tweet about Cruz’ wife. This is the first time we have se…
Comment linking /2016/04/04/derailing-the-trump-train/
on “Shamelessness as a Strategy (2019)”> Target middle school reading level. Short sentences & simple words. Technical audiences want information and don't care much about literary prose. Also, don't bury the lede, but put the main points in the first paragraph, then elaborate on them throughout the rest of the essay. The Abstract in academic papers is a good example - state the problem, explain how you addressed/explored it, and report your conclusions.…
Comment linking /2015/08/22/the-day-you-became-a-better-writer-2nd-look/
on “Writing a Programming Book in 2021”See also Scott Adams on goals vs. systems. https://www.scottadamssays.com/goals-vs-systems/
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on “How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Goals by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy””I think this is a good of example of why Scott Adams says this about analogies: Analogies: Analogies are good tools for explaining a concept to someone for the first time. But because analogies are imperfect they are the worst way to persuade. All discussions that involve analogies devolve into arguments about the quality of the analogy, not the underlying situation. https://www.scottadamssays.com/2016/12/21/how-to-…
Comment linking /2016/12/21/how-to-be-unpersuasive/
on “Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest”May devolve into a troll war like it does every time, but this is really the essence of the "Systems vs Goals" [1] approach that Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) advocates for. [1] https://www.scottadamssays.com/2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/
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on “Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app”It's pretty surreal to have just finished reading the blog post[1] on this topic, that was posted just a little bit higher, then to come here and see it played out. [1] https://www.scottadamssays.com/2019/04/30/the-fine-people-ho...
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on “Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media”
