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with a microphone on. The dopamine. The other day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Ah, that's the best thing ever. Thank you, Paul, over on Locals. That little graphic you have of that. So on the Locals platform, one of the members always puts up a littl
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Let's go privately over here. We're going to put the Locals people private so when I turn off YouTube later they'll have their little special time.
Now, are you wondering why I'm in such a good mood? Are you wondering why I'm so damn happy this morning? I mean, I'm like crazy happy. Well, number one, the rains have stopped and we've got a sunny California week. Now if you've not enjoyed a sunny California week, they're pretty awesome, but I haven't seen one in a while so I'm all excited about that.
Yesterday was amazing, but it's even better. I had a book deadline, which is today actually, and that meant I had to get all of my first round of edits done, which are really hard because editing writing is hard. But editing to an editor's changes, when those changes involve moving parts around, it becomes this huge Rubik's Cube. So instead of writing, which you're also doing as you're fixing stuff, you're also holding in your mind the entire book, hundreds of different sections, and how one phrase may have been more about this chapter than the other. And so you have to hold all of it in your head and then move it in different places. It's almost like programming, really. You're moving sections of code around to be in the right place. It's the hardest thing I do, period. It's the hardest thing I ever do.
And the reason I'm so happy today is that I finished it a few hours early and submitted it last night. There is no better day in the life of an author. There's no better day than the day you've submitted your stuff and you know it's a book now. The next status will be a little more work, but it's a book. Nothing can stop it. Until you submit the final or first round of edits, really, until you submit those, you're not entirely sure you have a book. You've worked for a year. You wasted it. You could potentially waste a year of your life because it takes all of your free time, all of it. And today I know it's a book.
Somebody says, "What about the day your trophy wife left you? Wa
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s that supposed to be my best day?" I'm not sure what that... there's somebody who mentions my wife or ex-wife on every topic. So let me tell you my latest troll technique. So you know I'm still, of course, every day I get loads of insults. And yesterday I was looking through the media stories about me. You know, there's a Substack about me, how terrible I am, and there's a whole bunch of, yes, l…
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