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@ScottAdamsSays This is a huge loss to the world, especially to those who rediscovered Scott later in life. Farewell, virtual friend to countless many! You will be remembered and deeply missed.

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams, who foretold Trump’s rise and diagnosed America’s political sickness, dead at 68 | Joel Pollak, New York Post

Cartoonist, author, and political commentator Scott Adams died Tuesday after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 68.

His ex-wife and caregiver, Shelly, made the announcement on Adams’ livestream Tuesday morning.

“Unfortunately, this isn’t good news,” Shelly said. “Of course, he waited ’til just before the show started, but he’s not with us anymore.”

Shelly read aloud a “final message” that Adams “wanted to say” on the livestream.

“If you’re reading this, things did not go well for me,” the message began. “I have a few things to say before I go. My body fell before my brain. I am of sound mind as i write this January 1, 2026.”

After speaking about Christianity, Adams’ message said, “For the first part of my life, I was focused on making myself a worthy husband and parent as a way to find meaning. That worked — but marriages don’t always last forever, and mine ended in a highly amicable way. I’m grateful for those years and the people I came to call my family.”

Adams announced he was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer in May 2025.

He said he had been dealing with his condition privately for some time before his public announcement, but noted that the cancer had progressed to Stage 4 and spread to his bones.

“I talked to my radiologist yesterday, and it’s all bad news — the odds of me recovering are essentially zero,” Adams said during his “Real Coffee with Scott Adams” podcast on Jan. 1. “I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t.

“So there’s no chance that I’ll get my feeling back in my legs, and I’ve got some ongoing heart failure, which is making it difficult to breathe sometimes during the day,” the iconic artist continued. “However, you should prepare yourself that January will probably be a month of transition, one way or another.”

On Monday, Shelly confirmed Adams was in hospice at his home in Northern California and had only a few days left to live.

Adams became famous through “Dilbert,” the comic strip that poked fun at corporate culture with keen insight into the absurdity, cruelty and incompetence of management inside large organizations.

In his last decade and a half, however, Adams achieved wide influence through his business advice and political analysis.

His 2013 bestseller, “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big,” is one of the most influential and entertaining business books of recent years.

In it, Adams introduced the concept of using systems, rather than goals, to achieve success in life. He also advised readers to accumulate skills — a “talent stack” — rather than traditional credentials.

In 2015, Adams began commenting on politics after observing the first Republican presidential primary debate. When then-candidate Donald Trump responded to a moderator’s question that accused him of mistreating women by interjecting, “Only Rosie O’Donnell,” Adams took notice.

A trained hypnotist, Adams predicted that Trump, then a huge underdog, would win the nomination — and the presidency.

Adams drew ridicule for his bold claim. But he looked increasingly prescient as Trump dispensed with his opponents, the Republican establishment, and — eventually — Hillary Clinton.

Adams used what he called the “persuasion filter”: Rather than judging whether political rhetoric was true or false, he simply evaluated it based on whether it was persuasive.

What began as a simple blog post became a daily live video stream — first on the now-defunct Periscope platform, then on a variety of outlets, including anti-cancel-culture Rumble (in which he had invested).

Adams began each show by brewing fresh coffee; he eventually called his livestream “Coffee with Scott Adams,” and it became required viewing, or listening, for millions of fans, who poured their own mugs and tuned in at 10 a.m. ET for the “simultaneous sip.”

While he excelled at explaining Trump’s tactics to a growing audience of Trump-supporting fans, Adams was also interested in explaining how Democrats, and the left-leaning media, interpreted events.

He explained that the country was often watching “two movies on one screen,” and argued — with great empathy for his opponents — that voters who felt genuinely frightened by Trump’s ascent had been led into an emotional cul-de-sac by cynical leaders.

Adams emphasized that he was not a Republican: “I’m further left than Bernie Sanders,” he reminded viewers. He even endorsed Clinton in 2016 — for his own safety, he said. But he drew a conservative audience that soon included Trump’s own advisers.

In 2017, Adams published “Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter,” in which he extrapolated the lessons of Trump’s unlikely victory. He followed that with “Loserthink,” using his critiques of stale thinking in the media to teach positive mental habits.

During the coronavirus pandemic, Adams added an evening “swaddle,” in which he wrapped himself in a flannel blanket, and offered advice for surviving lockdowns. One of his ideas was a concept he called “the user interface for reality.” Given that we can only see reality through our own individual filters, he explained, we can choose which filter to use.

The “Dilbert” filter, for example, predicted incompetence; the Trump filter anticipated victory. By adopting filters that guide us toward success, Adams argued, we not only convince ourselves that success is possible, but bend reality toward that outcome.

While generally pro-Trump, Adams was critical of the president on occasion, and also took unexpected political stances. When then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began “taking a knee” for the national anthem in support of the fledgling Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, Adams supported him, and admired the persuasive success of his protest. He even offered advice to leaders within BLM, notably New York’s Hawk Newsome.

In 2023, he was accused of racism when he commented on a Rasmussen poll in which only 53% of black respondents agreed with the statement: “It’s OK to be white.”

Adams quipped that it would be good to move away from people who felt that degree of hostility. He immediately found himself “canceled” — his comic strip dropped, his publishing contracts terminated.

He began self-publishing his books, including “Reframe Your Brain: The User Interface for Happiness and Success.” He relaunched an edgier version of “Dilbert” on the independent Locals platform, and felt liberated to express his more controversial political views — such as that the 2020 election had likely been “rigged,” given the increasingly evident corruption of nearly every other government system.

In the last weeks of his life, he posted on X, asking readers to share personal stories about how they had been affected by his teachings and podcasts. Adams shared intimate, and often painful, details of his life — losing a stepson to a fentanyl overdose in 2018, suffering through a second divorce in 2022, and fighting cancer.

He also embraced Christianity in his final days. While he would not divulge details about his faith, he confirmed his conversion in a final message that Shelly read on Tuesday’s livestream.

He reframed death, as he had reframed life: Just one more filter — and not one to fear.

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@Biblicalman Amen, brother!

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

A Final Message From Scott Adams

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@ZiaErica I’ll take the seat further up in that little hallway. The lockable one. 😂

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@ScottAdamsSays Very few have met a patient as upbeat and articulate as Scott. Keep up the good spirits. Get pooping already, pretend the nurse isn’t watching, you’ll feel a lot better.

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I am increasingly confident that this idea could work

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In this new era of AI, will we begin to see the emergence of virtual regional dialects based on which platform a user prefers? i.e. people thinking and writing like Grokers versus those who think and write like GPTers?

Or will it inevitably lead to the monotonization (is that a word?) of peoples!?

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@mamboitaliano__ Shallow followers… Let them only eat their Italian pistachio ice cream. 😔

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My heart is heavy with the news of Charlie Kirk’s death, but at the same time encouraged by how impactful he has been and will continue to be. For the college kids today, this is your MLK moment. Charlie Kirk advocated for the emancipation of free thinking and thoughtful, open discourse on college campuses; and he was shot because the opposition had no sound, reasonable counter to his truthful message. Fare thee well, Mr. Kirk!

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@1Nicdar Patton!

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China is the ultimate global “theater kid.”

Look at the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony. While the impressiveness was undeniable, it was meant to flex and show off to the world that there’s a new cool kid on campus.

These automation efforts are another flex. Again, meant to show off and prove that “I can do this better than you,” but I’d highly doubt the quality of what’s being churned out.

Just more theater kid antics! 😂

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@ScottAdamsSays Take good care, Sir Scott! 🙏

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@BillAckman Yes, this game or Catan! Wonderful family fun!

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@BillAckman Yes, just like they didn’t need our help in the Golan Heights back in the 70’s.

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Hey Scott, I just barely started the replay of this morning’s show…omg…your news hit me as hard as the day my late father was diagnosed with metastatic cancer.

It was profoundly impactful how you said that we all have to die some time. I am a very recent subscriber but I have enjoyed and always looked forward to your comic in the local paper ever since I was a young adult in the military. Your comic strip helped keep my perspective on societal and world events in the realm of reality, and it also helped me get a taste of home when I was overseas.

You are one of two 𝕏 personalities that I subscribe to, and I just wanted to say “thank you!” for all the decades (predating 𝕏) of cheers that you have provided me and many others!

God bless you, my man!

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@Katiegreenradio Is waiting in line to hoard toilet paper a thing again? 😂