Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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s are not the things that are important. They're the things that fill up the time. They're the things that fill voids. So when you're watching the news, you're not watching some kind of top priorities or anything like that. Often they are, but that's not the purpose of the news, to show you the top priorities. All right, here's a question for you. It's a persuasion quiz. I'm going to ask you who…

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. Those two things are not equal. One is a picture. A picture is really strong. That gets in your head and lives there forever. A concept just sort of washes over you in terms of persuasion. So AOC wins every time that meme goes around by repetition, empathy, visual persuasion against a concept. And the concept doesn't really carry very far even when it's true.

I've been asked often recently if there will be a Dilbert NFT. The answer is yes. How many of you don't know what that means? Probably most. If you're not aware, there are things called NFTs which are essentially digital collectibles. Now you should say to yourself, oh, how does that make any sense? Anything digital can be just reproduced. You just take a screenshot, capture your screen. There's nothing digital that can't be reproduced. So how in the world could there be a collectible? And the answer is blockchain.

Blockchain technology allows you to know for sure who was the first owner, legal owner of a digital image. It could be a video, could be a still image, anything. And because there is certainty about who owned it, you can sell it. So you can buy a collectible just like you could buy, let's say, a baseball card. And it could be an image of William Shatner. I think he's got some NFTs. It could be any kind of collectible or a Dilbert image, for example. There'll be a number of them under development. But because the blockchain knows for sure who owns something, you can sell it. And part of the benefit is that the original creator always gets a share of every future sale. Pretty good. Pretty good design, right?

So that incentivizes the creators to make stuf

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f because they'll always share in it after it's gone. And people can collect them. Now people used to collect my physical signature back in the peak of Dilbert mania, especially in the '90s. People would actually buy my autograph at autograph swap meets and stuff. And sometimes they would check with me. They'd send me an image and say, just want to make sure I bought your autograph. Or sometimes I…

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