Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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I want my kid to go to an Ivy League school. So I think if we were to do this we should do it by formula and it would be cold and effective to just do it in alphabetical order because alphabetical order is such a strong message that it's not personal. Because it isn't. It has nothing to do with the individuals who are getting kicked out. It has nothing to do with that. It's just numbers. And if y…

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s. I'll talk about those in a minute. But one of them is the Block COVID online summit. So if you can't find the link just Google Block COVID online summit. And or you could go to at BlockOVID and you'll see the links and stuff.

All right. So I tweeted and it's pinned to my account. I asked for people to put in links to various apps and websites and stuff that would be useful for the crisis. So some of the ones I know about, just to tell you what's going on. So besides the one I just mentioned there's the projectn95.com where buyers and sellers of this PPE can find each other. So that's a good one. There's one I put on there. And again you can find the actual links on my pinned tweet. There's a link to some people where you can take your temperature every day just on your own. And then you enter into the app or the website your temperature. And the idea is that as anybody gets elevated temperatures you might be able to identify hot zones. So you know if you found that let's say the people in my zip code suddenly started to inch up in temperature, maybe you got a problem there. So those are just some of the many ideas and a lot of people have submitted links for that. So go take a

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look at that. By the way, if you're wondering why you would use blockchain as opposed to other technologies for any kind of apps, some of the advantages are that it's a distributed system so you don't need to build a database. The other data just lives distributed in the internet. Some of it is privacy. Something that is it's easier to do things across borders so you don't have to worry about the…

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