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[Jaska @Jaskaranta]

@StadinMacGyver Olisin eilen ostanut kaupasta Negroni-ainekset, mutta heillä ei ollut Camparia (olisi pitänyt tajuta ostaa se Tescosta siellä käydessäni ensin, tarjoushinta €22). Kyllä tuli taas ikävä Italian hintoja; sieltä tarttui mukaan 1l Campari €19.

[Jaska @Jaskaranta]

@maceochi Itse joskus muinoin kävin kielikurssin ja harmittavan vähän siitä tarttui. Nyt lapset opiskelevat koulussa sitä, vaikea liki kaikille ja ikävä kyllä paljon opettajasta kiinni, kuinka paljon kiinnostaa ja oppii. Upea kieli ja hauska kuunnella esim. TG4 gaelic games -selostuksia 😃

[Naval @naval]

On Scott Adams.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he exists. After the elation of childhood wears off, he asks, who am I, why am I here, how does this work? These are hard questions, so after a brief struggle, he selects a readymade answer and goes about the motions of life.

Scott Adams was not such a man. He was a live player, ever curious, intent on figuring out this simulation that he found himself in. From first principles, Scott unraveled, understood, and ultimately controlled his own reality. He hacked himself with affirmations, others with persuasion, the world with simultaneous sips. He explained people as moist robots, two movies happening on one screen, his world as Gods’ debris. He carved a personal mission to “be useful,” and made us all better writers, public speakers, and persuaders. He preached the footwear theory of motivation, the Adams Law of slow-moving disasters, the skill stack, systems over goals, and of course, the Dilbert Principle.

Besides cartooning, philosophizing, and teaching, Scott rose to the occasion and displayed, “the one virtue that cannot be faked” - courage. Scott had the courage to speak honestly as he saw it - about Trump, about his nation, and about his time, even though it cost him friends, audience, money, and his ticket to polite society. Scott had true courage, the kind that makes you unpopular, the kind that is always and everywhere in short supply,

At the end, as any hacker of reality, Scott covered all of his bases - he left as a Buddhist, a Christian, and a player in the Simulation.

Scott, we didn’t get enough time with you, but you were a mentor and a marvel. You were useful and you were courageous. You were incompressible and indivisible. One of a kind, and generous with your drawing, writing, and speaking. Unlike your squealing critics in the chattering class, you will be read generations from now.

On this earth there are many long-lived hells but no lasting heaven. Each heaven must be created and nurtured, ex-nihilo, from mind and from mud. Scott, you created a small heaven for us all, and to a larger heaven you go.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he no longer exists. He asks why, what it was for, and how will the new reality work? When the rest of us get there, we’ll find Scott, ever useful, ready to explain, having figured it all out.

Notes:
• First line paraphrasing Schopenhauer.
• Courage quote via Taleb.

[Naval @naval]

RIP @ScottAdamsSays - one of the most original, insightful, and fearless thinkers who ever lived. 😞🙏

[Jaska @Jaskaranta]

@ScottAdamsSays @joelpollak From Dilbert in the 90’s, blog posts and earliest PDF version of God’s Debris, Periscope, Twitter, X and all the books, I’ve found you insightful, thank you. Made my life better, too. Blessings 🙏🏼

[Jaska @Jaskaranta]

@BowTiedTrance Can some ”Scott’s Debris” from Ireland join in too, pls?

[Jaska @Jaskaranta]

@ScottAdamsSays thank you! Got mine today, all the way to Irish countryside.

[Jaska @Jaskaranta]

@aleksis_kallio Upea ketju, hienoa luettavaa, kiitos!

[Jaska @Jaskaranta]

@ScottAdamsSays 🙏🏼 long time follower, from the blog to Periscope and enjoying daily Dilberts still. Have your books and like for many others you changed my life, talent stack, managing energy, daily habits, too many to mention here. I hope you find peace or what ever the simulation will offer🙏🏼

[Jaska @Jaskaranta]

@JukkaMannisto 😅 luulin ensin lepakoksi..

[Jaska @Jaskaranta]

@IsoHenkka Mielenkiintoista.. lausutaanko tuo ihan suomen k-kirjaimella eikä englantilaisittain? Because-sana lyhenee täällä jo tekstareissakin muotoon ’cos.

[Jaska @Jaskaranta]

@ScottAdamsSays Changed my job (building talent stack, enduring long commute for better pay). And then after 2 yrs getting my home office job back with better terms and salary.

[Jaska @Jaskaranta]

@TuomasEnbuske Lisäksi, että ei kaipaa ”pelastamista” yksin syömiseltä, vaan on täysin onnellinen hyvässä seurassa.