1. Scott Raymond Adams was born on June 8,1957 and is an American author and cartoonist.
62 Facts About Scott Adams
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Scott Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of business, commentary, and satire.
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Scott Adams writes in a satirical way about the social and psychological landscape of white-collar workers in modern corporations.
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Scott Adams then relaunched the strip as a webcomic on his locals.
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Scott Adams was born on June 8,1957, in Windham, New York, the son of Paul and Virginia Scott Adams.
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Scott Adams has described himself as "about half German" and has English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry.
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In 2016, Scott Adams said he had a small amount of Native American ancestry, but later discovered via 23andme genetic testing that he does not have any detectable Native American genetic markers.
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Scott Adams was a fan of Peanuts comics while growing up and started drawing comics at age 6.
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Scott Adams graduated from Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School in 1975 and was the valedictorian of his class of 39 students.
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Scott Adams earned a BA in economics from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York in 1979.
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Scott Adams took Dale Carnegie Training and called it "life changing".
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Scott Adams worked closely with telecommunications engineers at Crocker National Bank in San Francisco between 1979 and 1986.
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Scott Adams's positions included management trainee, computer programmer, budget analyst, commercial lender, product manager, and supervisor.
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Scott Adams worked at Pacific Bell between 1986 and June 30,1995, and the personalities he encountered there inspired many of his Dilbert characters.
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In 1989, while still employed at Pacific Bell, Scott Adams launched Dilbert with United Media.
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Scott Adams's first payment for Dilbert was a monthly royalty check of $368.62.
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Scott Adams attributed his success to his idea of including his email address in the panels, which resulted in feedback and suggestions from readers.
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Scott Adams' success grew, and he became a full-time cartoonist as Dilbert reached 800 newspapers.
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In 1997, Scott Adams won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist and Best Newspaper Comic Strip.
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Scott Adams tricked Logitech managers into adopting a mission statement that Adams described as "so impossibly complicated that it has no real content whatsoever".
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Scott Adams's writing in San Jose Mercury News West Magazine regarding the incident earned him an Orwell Award.
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Scott Adams served as executive producer and showrunner, along with Seinfeld writer Larry Charles.
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Scott Adams later asserted in his book Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert and to his followers on Twitter that the show had been canceled because he was white and UPN had made a decision to shift toward African-American viewers.
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In 2023, Scott Adams announced in a pinned tweet that he had re-published God's Debris for free for his subscribers, and would shortly publish an AI-voiced audiobook version.
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In 2015, Scott Adams wrote blog posts predicting that Donald Trump had a 98 percent chance of winning the presidency based on his persuasion skills, and he started writing about Trump's persuasion techniques.
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Adams soon developed this as a daily video presentation called Real Coffee with Scott Adams, distributed to Periscope, YouTube, ScottAdamsSays.
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Scott Adams sold off his intellectual property in this venture when the product failed in the marketplace in 2003.
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Scott Adams was a restaurateur starting in 1997, but exited that business.
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In 2019, Scott Adams briefly received negative media attention when during the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting he posted a tweet suggesting that witnesses download the WhenHub app and "set your price to take calls".
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Scott Adams later apologized, saying the message was "poorly worded".
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Scott Adams was a fan of the science fiction TV series Babylon 5.
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Scott Adams appeared in the season 4 episode "Moments of Transition" as a character named "Mr Adams" who hires former head of security Michael Garibaldi to locate his megalomaniacal dog and cat.
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Scott Adams had a cameo in "Review", a third-season episode of the TV series NewsRadio, in which Matthew Brock becomes an obsessed Dilbert fan.
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Scott Adams is credited as "Guy in line behind Dave and Joe in first scene".
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Scott Adams has been a guest on podcasts including Making Sense with Sam Harris, The Tim Ferriss Show, The James Altucher Show, The Ben Shapiro Show, The Rubin Report, Real Talk with Zuby and The David Pakman Show.
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Scott Adams has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher, Commonwealth Club of California, Fox News and Berkeley Haas.
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Scott Adams was interviewed for Mike Cernovich's documentaries Silenced and Hoaxed.
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In 2016, Scott Adams contributed a chapter of life advice to Tim Ferriss's collection, Tools of Titans.
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In 2018, Scott Adams similarly praised the persuasion skills of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Scott Adams predicted in March 2020 that Trump, Sanders, and Joe Biden would all contract COVID-19 and that one of them would die from it by the end of the year; in December 2020, when all three men remained alive, Politico named Scott Adams's prediction one of "the most audacious, confident and spectacularly incorrect prognostications about the year".
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Scott Adams incorrectly predicted in 2024 that there would be a "landslide" of claims of a rigged election, and the Supreme Court would simply overturn the election result to award Trump a win if he lost.
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Scott Adams has compared women asking for equal pay to children demanding candy.
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Scott Adams said his comments were inspired by his own stepson, who became addicted to drugs at the age of 14 and later died of a fentanyl overdose.
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In January 2023, Scott Adams announced that he was considering taking legal action against political cartoonist Ben Garrison for defamation after Garrison published a cartoon that depicted Scott Adams as pro-masking and pro-COVID-19 vaccines.
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Scott Adams later suggested on a podcast that people unvaccinated against COVID-19 were less likely to contract the disease than vaccinated people, despite evidence to the contrary.
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In 2018, Scott Adams said the idea that Trump had praised the white supremacists at the 2017 Unite the Right rally was "fake news".
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On June 28,2020, Scott Adams said on Twitter that the Dilbert TV show was cancelled because he was white and UPN had decided to focus on an African-American audience, and that he had been "discriminated against".
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On February 22,2023, Scott Adams responded to a poll by Rasmussen Reports that asked respondents if they agreed with the statement "it's okay to be white", a seemingly innocuous phrase that the Anti-Defamation League said was being used online in 2017 as part of an alt-right trolling campaign and is associated with the white supremacist movement.
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Scott Adams announced that on March 13,2023, the strip would return as Dilbert Reborn on the subscription website Locals.
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Since late 2004, Scott Adams has had focal dystonia, which has affected his ability to draw for lengthy periods.
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Scott Adams had spasmodic dysphonia, a condition that causes the vocal cords to behave abnormally.
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Scott Adams married Shelly Miles aboard a yacht, the Galaxy Commodore, on July 22,2006, in San Francisco Bay, in a ceremony conducted by the ship's captain.
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Scott Adams was stepfather to Miles' two children, Savannah and Justin, the latter of whom died of a fentanyl overdose in 2018 at age 18.
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On Christmas Day in 2019, Scott Adams announced on his podcast that he was engaged to Kristina Basham, and later revealed that they had married on July 11,2020.
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On March 10,2022, Scott Adams announced on his YouTube podcast that he and Basham were getting divorced.
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Scott Adams has described a method he has used that he says gave him success: he pictured in his mind what he wanted and wrote it down 15 times a day on a piece of paper.
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Scott Adams continues to live in Pleasanton, California and is active in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Scott Adams has received recognition for his work, including the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1997 for his work on Dilbert.
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Scott Adams climbed the European Foundation for Management Development rankings of the 50 most influential management thinkers, placing 31st in 2001,27th in 2003,12th in 2005, and 21st in 2007.
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Scott Adams received the Orwell Award in 1998 for his participation in "Mission Impertinent" for San Jose Mercury News West Magazine.
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Scott Adams has coined several words and phrases over the years, including Confusopoly, the Dilbert principle, Elbonia as a term for non-specific overseas countries, and Pointy-Haired Boss and Induhvidual as insults.
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Scott Adams is quoted in the book Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.