Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 1, 2026
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you interpreted it as 17 say it's true, well probably true, then you got it completely wrong. There's nothing in the reality that would suggest the 17 intelligence agencies in the United States agreeing tells you anything. It doesn't tell you anything. That's how you should process it. All right, let's see what else we got here. Yeah that's mostly what I want to talk about today. Or anything I mi…

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China was lying? We already know that. That's public information. So what are the intelligence agencies know that we don't?

Yes, Elon Musk's tweet storm. So Elon tweeted among other things, I think in last 48 hours or so, among other things that his girlfriend was having a baby on Monday. People didn't know that. And that Tesla stock was overpriced in his opinion. He sure likes trouble. Talk about a guy who likes trouble. I think he enjoys it. And then some other random things that he tweeted anyway. The tweets were let's say eyebrow-raising enough that people started wondering if he was on drugs or crazy or trolling or what the heck's going on. So it's like a cottage industry trying to decide what Elon is secretly thinking.

If I had to guess I'd say drugs. It looked like somebody was on some kind of drug and tweeting. Now do I care? You know would I sell my Tesla stock if I learned that Elon had taken mushrooms? I'm just speculating. There's no evidence that he did that. But would I do anything differently with my investments if I heard that Elon took some mushrooms and tweeted too much? Nope. Because you know what? Whoever Elon Musk is today, he was the same guy a few years ago, right? If it worked. Yeah.

Oh yeah, the other thing is he was going to sell off all of his possessions, his houses, etc. Now I don't know if any that's true or whatever but it sounds like somebody was on drugs. Do I care if he was on drugs? Nope. Because if he was, he was still the same Elon Musk who broke all the rules. And you know this will always be remembered I think as one of the great entrepreneurs of our time. Do you care if Henry Ford drank too much? I don't think he drank. I'm not even sure if he did. But do you care if Steve Jobs did LSD? Because he did. Do you care? No. Do you care that almost every major company in Silicon Valley has major top employees who are microdosing on LSD every day? Do you care? Probably not. Do you care that they're using performance-enhancing drugs, Adderall and everything else? And not really. Do you care if they smoke marijuana on nights and weekends? Nope.

So I guess my take on Elon's tweeting is he's still the same person. You know he didn't become less capable of doing anything. He just is letting you know who he is.

I said the uncomfortable truth that nobody wants to say out loud. Let me say it out loud. Let me be the first person to say it out loud. Success in this world is about which drugs you get addicted to. There

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, I said what a lot of people have thought but you don't want to say. If what you got addicted to is alcohol, probably that's not going to go well for you unless you're a functional alcoholic and you're in sales. If you're a functional alcoholic and you're in a sales profession it might be pretty good. I mean I wouldn't recommend it but it could work out well. In fact I know several people who are…

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