Mike Cernovich writes a heartfelt love letter to Scott Adams:
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.
It’s a beautiful sentiment and a lovely gesture toward a dying man. I have my own thoughts, but let those rest for the nonce. If nothing else, Scott will always be remembered as one of the greatest cartoonists to have ever laid pen to paper as well as the most eloquent commentator on the late 20th century corporation. More than anyone else, he penned its history and laid the framework for how future generations will interpret it.
The world will absolutely be diminished by his loss.