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house. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams, the finest experience you've ever had in your life, I'll bet you. And if you'd like to take it up to levels that nobody can even see without some kind of Elon Musk rocket ship, well, all you need for that is a coffee mug or a glass, a tanker, a chalice, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favo…

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You want to see the weirdest thing? I'm going to show you a picture from my college days. This is a true story. There was an underclassman who decided that he looked enough like me, and he decided that I was his role model because I was a year or two older. And he started dressing like me, and people noticed and started calling him the Clone. So rather than rejecting that and saying I'm not trying to copy him, he embraced it. He said, yeah, I'm totally trying to copy him. And it would get more and more extreme the entire time, and it just got funnier and funnier. He was a friend of mine. He lived just a few do

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ors down in the dormitory. But anyway, for Halloween that year, we went as clones. See if you can tell which one I am. I'd like to think he was the poor man's version of me, but I'm not entirely sure. He's probably worth a billion dollars now. He was pretty smart, probably did a startup or something. Anyway, I saw a concept today in one of Owen's posts about what's called the third place. Have y…

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