Jan Fredrik Drabløs

Husband and Father

[Jan Fredrik Drabløs @JanFredrikD]

This was a threat

[YouTube @YouTube]

Imagine if you couldn’t watch the videos you love

[Jason Barrett @JasonDigitl]

Think about laziness with Scott Adam’s differently and it’ll change your life.

Reframing is so so so powerful.

@ScottAdamsSays

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Scott Adams, facing death, shows us how to live.

Someone recommended “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big” by Scott Adams. I had burned out on mainstream books, but picked it up, and was hooked. He had put into words a way of living, similar to one I had found, except his approach was systemic and analytical. Better than my own slapdash notes. Outside of religious texts, Adams was and is as close to a “guide to life,” as you’ll ever find. And even if you’re religious, you still live in this world, and would be wise to learn how to navigate it.

Scott is closing in on the end of his life, and even now he is creating new beginnings.

I’d better write this now, I won’t be able to when it’s too late.

After losing Charlie Kirk, a lot of us are wondering how we can possibly write another obituary. While there’s much to complain about the internet and social media, those mediums expanded the sizes of our communities, our influences, and indeed our families. Too often we find new ways to hate people, instead of finding new people to love.

Scott Adams comes up in conversation at every social event I host. “How is Scott Adams doing? Will he make it?” We all talk about streams we watched and lessons learned. It’s a memorial except he’s still alive. Scott would love to hear that, which is why I have said so repeatedly. I’ve lost too many people, via death or fallings-out, to leave feeling unexpressed.

He’s been a surrogate father figure and mentor to millions of people.

Scott Adams is not liked, he is loved.

People don’t “like” Scott Adams, they aren’t “a fan of his.” They love this man. And I do as well. I’m still living in denial of his fate. We all are.

We’d been making a film about the meaning of life, and while Scott Adams had been in both of our other films, we hadn’t booked him for Meaning yet. Then we found out he was going to take the ride of assisted suicide. Foolishly, we had assumed he’d always be around. Nobody ever dies, right? Your dad will be there to take your call the next time you phone home. Your friends aren’t going anywhere. That’s how we too often live. We could book Scott later.

We reached out and he graciously agreed to be interviewed. We all knew it was going to be our last interview together. Scott and I are both efficient with our time. When a moment is over, it’s time to go do something else. Obligations call. The crew pushed this one as long as we could.

After the interview wrapped up and the gear was packed and it was time to go, there was an awkward pause. I broke it.

“Scott, we love you.” He said thank you. “No, Scott, we love you, I mean it, we all do. We love you.”

None of us broke down crying, not that there would have been any shame in that, but we no doubt all soon will.

Well then, what is the lesson of Scott Adams?

On a practical level, the lesson of Scott Adams is the power of showing up. Nobody works harder and on a more regular schedule. You can set your clock to Scott’s show. Too many of us wait for the muse of inspiration or the jolt of information to force us into action. Work, everyday, maybe in obscuring and without tangible benefits for years. Eventually you’ll hit your mark and go beyond.

Scott plugged away with his streams from a small account (after a huge career via Dilbert) and soon became must-watch, and then transcended his role to becoming something much more.

On a spiritual level, we might ask, why do we love Scott? It’s not because he’s so smart (he is). There are not shortage of intelligent, clever, Machiavellian, and rich people with podcasts. When one of them dies, what is lost? All of that Ego and desire for adoration, and does anybody even care? When those people fall while living, who will be there?

Scott is loved because he’s devoted his life to service to humanity. “What is the meaning of life,” is the question we ask every interviewee, and Scott’s answer, “Be useful to humanity.”

Despite pain, sickness, and inevitable death, Scott is doing his daily streams, serving his country and all of humankind until his end.

He’s a light to the world and a mirror for all of us.

What exactly are we doing with the gift of life given to us by God. (Scott believes in the Simulation, but I believe God evens this all out in the Judgment.) Are we doing enough for others? Are we doing anything for others?

Like everyone else, I’m capable of throwing myself a pity party. Sometimes when life is going too well, and I don’t have real problems, I invent some. That’s where the Ego brings you, recursively worshipping itself, and when that fails, tormenting itself, as each path leads to its own attention.

May all of us live more like Scott Adams, and may God bless his immortal soul when he passes.

P.S. I ran this article through Grok for typos. The original version had “immoral” soul where I meant it to read “immortal.” I think Scott would have had a great laugh had that typo been left in.

[Jan Fredrik Drabløs @JanFredrikD]

@Cernovich Looks great. Is there a way to support this.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

— Meaning —

The first feature length documentary asking what the meaning of life is

Coming soon in 2026

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

I was a lifelong Democrat. I thought most conservatives were ignorant or evil or lying. I believed almost everything written in the New York Times, The New Republic, and the Atlantic. I was horrified when conservatives criticized the authorities. Every criticism I saw: I thought all of it was motivated by animus, resentment, self-interest, or ignorance.

Whatever truth there might have been in the criticism, I saw as a mere "half-truth": an exploitation of this or that cherrypicked fact being weaponized. Why did I see it in terms of weaponization? Because I was biased: I saw liberal establishment institutions and figures as fundamentally good, so all criticism of them was automatically interpreted as being in bad faith.

Didn't the critics know that these institutions or figures were fundamentally good? If they didn't, they were ignorant. If they did, they were evil. It was that simple. This meant that any legitimate criticisms would just be dismissed, as if bouncing off of an impenetrable bulletproof shield.

This all changed once I started writing about the pandemic. Soon people started talking about me the way I once thought about conservatives. This led to a complete identity collapse as I came to understand that my old worldview was hateful and ignorant, that I hadn't understood what I had been judging.

I cannot forget the hearing that led to my dismissal from medical school a year after I started writing. During the hearing, people talked about me as if I wasn't human. My behavior was interpreted in the worst possible light. Complete fabrications were created. Nobody was concerned with the truth, only horrified at my apparent "unprofessional behavior", which was really a mirror of their unprofessional behavior directed at me. They structured the hearing to make it virtually impossible for me to speak and explain that what was being said was a lie. And nobody seemed to have any problem with this. Why? Because I was bad. If I am bad, then every mistreatment and every violation of the school's own policies became justified. A person who is bad does not deserve any rights. They only deserve punishment.

But the thing I remember most was the allusions to my social media activity. They said, "Kevin is driven by resentment from his childhood." I wasn't. I was on good terms with my parents. They alleged that I needed psychotherapy to deal with this trauma. It was a completely fake story that they had constructed about me, to demean me, to marginalize me, to try to explain the views I had expressed: that something terribly wrong had happened during the pandemic. They couldn't imagine that I might have legitimate points. So they reduced me to the same kinds of psychological caricatures that I once reduced conservatives to in my own mind.

When I was dismissed, I was broken. But I had help from friends who helped me understand what happened. And I came to realize that a hysteria had overtaken the left. I spent a lot of time reading about show trials, about witch trials, and so on. I also connected with people who had experienced similar things and came to realize that something similar had happened to hundreds of physicians around the country. My story wasn't unique. It was all the same story over and over again.

I cannot believe the person I once was. I cannot believe that I could exist like that. I still don't understand how I could be like that, or how millions of people in this country could continue being like that. It disturbs me greatly.

One thing I know is that whatever this thing is that is driving people crazy needs to be destroyed. It is hostile to civilization and to our humanity. It causes us to dehumanize each other and try to destroy each other. It is the very same monstrous thing that I once attributed to conservatives. But it had been inside me, and I could now see it inside others. This is something I still grapple with.

[Global Government Affairs @GlobalAffairs]

X is proud to support Mr. Ruben Sanchez (@rdsanchezjr) in his lawsuit against United Airlines for wrongful termination infringing on his free speech.

After a 27-year career, Sanchez was fired by United for his personal beliefs. Upon receiving a false online complaint, United conducted an intrusive review of Mr. Sanchez’s social media activity on X–none of which was related to his work or his outstanding professional record–and terminated him because United did not agree with his religious beliefs on social issues.

X remains steadfast in defending free speech globally. We stand by Mr. Sanchez in this fight against an unjust termination aimed at silencing personal expression.

https://t.co/yqGQrp0pwZ

[Jan Fredrik Drabløs @JanFredrikD]

@rdsanchezjr @elonmusk @X @united @afa_cwa Good luck my friend

[Jan Fredrik Drabløs @JanFredrikD]

@AnnCoulter That is @rdsanchezjr

[Kulvinder Kaur MD @dockaurG]

1/ New 651-page pre-print paper on govts' global response to covid from UK's Cambridge:

"Lockdowns turned out to be the greatest health economics mistake in modern history.. Lockdowns had no significant effect on covid transmission, cases or deaths. The collateral damage caused by lockdowns impacted health, economic, social, political, legal,
policing, transport issues.. Politicians were motivated to retain or seek power, so keen to appease the median voter & maintained lockdowns, despite the economic and health damage they caused. A vicious circle developed: fear sustained lockdowns & lockdowns sustained fear."

▶️https://t.co/3VvXqVWcrH

[Jan Fredrik Drabløs @JanFredrikD]

@rdsanchezjr @AnnCoulter @united @afa_cwa Looking forward to it

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

I know.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We gotta win, but, once we do, we can cut the millions of strings that, like Gulliver, hold back the giant that is America!

[Jan Fredrik Drabløs @JanFredrikD]

@realjuliasong Have a low threshold to block them. Do not take it personal.

[Gorilla Mind @realgorillamind]

You asked. We listened.

Our Highest-Stim Pre-Workout. Ever.

Thursday ⏳

[Jan Fredrik Drabløs @JanFredrikD]

@barnes_law said this is what they tried to do with Alex Jones a few years ago, but Jones immediately reported it to the FBI, unlike Chen that got raided when this was unsealed. The indicted Russians will never show up to court. The DOJ will keep this investigation open and spy on all Chen interacted with using FISA.

[Jan Fredrik Drabløs @JanFredrikD]

@evan_worle @MrAndyNgo This data is aggregated doing a count of total tweets per day. Historical data is not changed.

[Jan Fredrik Drabløs @JanFredrikD]

@MrAndyNgo That is not many tweets. It's more likely that some posts she retweeted got deleted. As these people started to get notifications and attention they didn't want.

[Jan Fredrik Drabløs @JanFredrikD]

@AJA_Cortes First time I saw this meme was in 2009 regarding software testing.

[Jan Fredrik Drabløs @JanFredrikD]

@petithapa I took it as a joke, as he was trolling at the time.