Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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there, even if they're on the trip, you're like, oh, I got the day to do what I want. So I thought, I wonder if you could create an AI girlfriend who is, who you take to be your girlfriend but she's always on a business trip. She's just always on a trip. Oh you're definitely married. But every day she'll call in a couple times on Zoom, say, "Hey, you know, just got out of my meetings. I want to ch…

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false path. These are all real things. There really is systemic racism. You know I'm a big believer in it. But you need to ignore it if you want to personally succeed. If you want to personally succeed, work on strategies. The rest of it will become irrelevant pretty quickly. Really quickly.

Now you might say to me, "Scott, you're being simplistic because the reason you can't work on those personal strategies is you're in such a bad situation." To which I say that is a loser's strategy or a loser's philosophy. If you believe you can't because you have obstacles, well then you can't. Somebody smart said that once. If you believe you can't, you're right. If you believe you can, you're probably right.

So this is my contribution. I do it at obviously great personal risk but I'm in a position where I could do that and so I thought it was useful. And I only do it because it's useful. It probably looks like I'm trying to get clicks but not this. This is only because I think it's useful. And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes our presentation for today. YouTube, I'll talk to you tomorrow.