Scott Adams has terminal prostate cancer.
Scott’s announcement has the rare effect of pure selfishness. I’m immediately thinking – what will I do without this man? It’s a testament of his immortal impact that I know that I am just one of many many thousands who share that same selfish thought. https://t.co/xUsK1gVQ4e
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) May 19, 2025
I worked for MCI from ‘93-95. I swear it was like Adams was in the next row of cubicles. Whatever management fad de jour came up, it was in a Dilbert comic soon afterwards. I heard it was because a vast number of tech workers were sending him stories about the management idiocies, so he never had a shortage of useful material. I’m going to miss him.
Perhaps my all time favorite Dilbert comic is this one. It was especially funny when I moved into a new building with motion sensors that kept turning out the lights. Dilbert had the solution!
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Very sad news.
This one hung in my cubicle in the engineering dept for years:
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I knew he was very sick from watching his “Coffee With Scott Adams Videos” over the past few months. The decline over the past year has been dramatic. Sad to say I’m not surprised and was expecting this very sad news. Tragic.
I’ve been watching him regularly ever since he was cancelled, and it became an important part of my day. Yet it wasn’t until two days ago that I saw that he was in ill health. My wife listens to his podcasts only once or twice a week, and, like you, she knew he was very ill. My lack of perception perplexes me, but I didn’t see this coming. It was therefore a very big shock to me this morning as I listened to him in real time. I’ve been really depressed about it since the end of the episode.
It became clear over the last couple of years how close he and Gutfeld are, and how much Adams’ thinking influenced Gutfeld. What is more amazing is how much Adams’ thinking has influenced the public, without anyone really noticing or attributing it to him. I’m not talking about his humor, though that is legendary. But he has shaped the language of our discourse in ways people don’t realize. The terms “frame”, “reframe” and “framing” are new to our discourse, and are very widely used these days – and he originated them. The same with “talent stack”. His various books (“Win Bigly”, “Reframe Your Brain”, “God’s Debris”, “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big”, etc.) have promulgated ideas that now permeate the culture – or half of it, anyway – and have changed the lives of a great many people for the better.
His public thought process in unravelling the corruption of virtually all American institutions has helped to open the eyes of a huge section of the electorate. More importantly, his handy set of rules for spotting misinformation and disinformation have armed otherwise trusting people to spot the gaslighting by the Leftist institutions, especially the media. One of his least noticed rule is my favorite, because I came up with it myself more than 40 years ago: “If a headline in an article consists of a question, the actual answer is ‘No.'”
I am so sorry he is suffering as he is, and am just as sorry that we are going to lose another bright, completely underappreciated light.