Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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short and clever. Has to be on something that's in the headlines or people are really thinking about right now. I burned my lip. It's not a monkeypox or a weird disease. It's just a burn. And you should always be clever and provocative and ideally say something that's not quite true. If you say something that's provocative and sort of almost true but not quite you're going to get more energy beca…

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bad tweeter but it's hard for me to reconcile the tweeting with the fact that he wrote all these popular books. Maybe Joshua Lisec could explain it to us because I already know the answer but maybe Joshua could explain that to you. But why is it he's writing all these good books still and yet he seems like he could be capable of that? What could possibly be the explanation of that? That's one explanation. I don't know if it's the only explanation but it's certainly one of them.

Yeah, all right, that's enough for now. No I don't have monkeypox. I burned my lip. I hope that's the last time I have to say that today. And I'll talk to you tomorrow.