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Dilbert #44
I'm No Scientist, But I Think Feng Shui Is Part of the Answer: A Dilbert Book
Dilbert is thecartoon world's Office Space, a cubicle eye view of the real workplace!
What do the arts of yoga, feng shui, and Irish dance have in common?
They can’t save you from a gnawing dissatisfaction with your job. Luckily, our favorite office cog has a few tricks up his sleeve. Armed with a wearable brain stimulator and ingestible nanorobots, Dilbert discovers how to outpace stress, boredom, and sitting-induced early death. He may be a cyborg with a fake personality, but meetings are more tolerable than ever
What do the arts of yoga, feng shui, and Irish dance have in common?
They can’t save you from a gnawing dissatisfaction with your job. Luckily, our favorite office cog has a few tricks up his sleeve. Armed with a wearable brain stimulator and ingestible nanorobots, Dilbert discovers how to outpace stress, boredom, and sitting-induced early death. He may be a cyborg with a fake personality, but meetings are more tolerable than ever
160 pages, Hardcover
Published November 1, 2016
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Scott Adams
240 books1,309 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
Scott Adams was a defining voice of the American white-collar experience who transitioned from a prominent cartoonist into a polarizing political commentator. After earning an MBA from UC Berkeley and spending years in management at Pacific Bell, Adams launched the comic strip Dilbert in 1989. The strip’s sharp satire of corporate bureaucracy and the "Dilbert Principle"—the idea that incompetent employees are promoted to management to minimize their damage—resonated globally, eventually appearing in 2,000 newspapers and winning the prestigious Reuben Award. Beyond the funny pages, Adams explored philosophy and persuasion in works like God's Debris and Win Bigly, the latter of which analyzed Donald Trump’s rhetorical strategies during the 2016 election. His career took a dramatic turn during the mid-2010s as he shifted focus to his daily "Real Coffee" livestream, where he combined his background in hypnosis and corporate strategy to comment on the "culture wars." This period of independent commentary culminated in 2023 when he reacted to a poll regarding racial tensions with a series of inflammatory remarks. Labeling Black Americans a "hate group" and advocating for racial segregation, Adams faced immediate and widespread repercussions; hundreds of newspapers dropped his strip, and his publisher canceled his upcoming projects. Undeterred, he moved his work to the subscription-based platform Locals, rebranding his comic as Dilbert Reborn. In his final years, he faced severe health challenges, including stage IV prostate cancer and vocal cord issues, yet he remained a prolific presence on social media. He eventually announced the end of his hand-drawn work due to focal dystonia but continued to direct the strip's vision. Adams’s legacy remains a complex study in the power of branding, the evolution of digital influence, and the volatile intersection of creative genius and political provocation in the modern era.
Scott Adams was a defining voice of the American white-collar experience who transitioned from a prominent cartoonist into a polarizing political commentator. After earning an MBA from UC Berkeley and spending years in management at Pacific Bell, Adams launched the comic strip Dilbert in 1989. The strip’s sharp satire of corporate bureaucracy and the "Dilbert Principle"—the idea that incompetent employees are promoted to management to minimize their damage—resonated globally, eventually appearing in 2,000 newspapers and winning the prestigious Reuben Award. Beyond the funny pages, Adams explored philosophy and persuasion in works like God's Debris and Win Bigly, the latter of which analyzed Donald Trump’s rhetorical strategies during the 2016 election. His career took a dramatic turn during the mid-2010s as he shifted focus to his daily "Real Coffee" livestream, where he combined his background in hypnosis and corporate strategy to comment on the "culture wars." This period of independent commentary culminated in 2023 when he reacted to a poll regarding racial tensions with a series of inflammatory remarks. Labeling Black Americans a "hate group" and advocating for racial segregation, Adams faced immediate and widespread repercussions; hundreds of newspapers dropped his strip, and his publisher canceled his upcoming projects. Undeterred, he moved his work to the subscription-based platform Locals, rebranding his comic as Dilbert Reborn. In his final years, he faced severe health challenges, including stage IV prostate cancer and vocal cord issues, yet he remained a prolific presence on social media. He eventually announced the end of his hand-drawn work due to focal dystonia but continued to direct the strip's vision. Adams’s legacy remains a complex study in the power of branding, the evolution of digital influence, and the volatile intersection of creative genius and political provocation in the modern era.
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December 4, 2016
It's been 20 years since Scott Adams has worked in a real office building, and it's starting to show. For a long time he coasted on submission of stories from readers and some of his genuine abilities as a comic writer, but he's clearly scrounging the bottom of the barrel for material that's all very disconnected as a result. Also, these comics are from the election year, and it's hard for his awful real life political personal to not shine through.
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February 5, 2017I'm not giving this a star rating because I don't feel like I know Dilbert well enough to tell if this is a relatively strong or weak collection. I enjoyed it, got to know the characters and style of the comic, and felt it was a reasonable size, nicely presented. Some of his social commentary (particularly the strips featuring the robot) is really insightful, but much of it isn't terribly interesting. It would be a good book to keep on the coffee table in your office lobby.
July 23, 2018
Dilbert rocks!
Writing reviews on something without a keyboard sucks. You should be able to get a link that will allow you do the review from a computer.
Oh, and in Spanish translation, Dilbert becomes Gilberto.
Writing reviews on something without a keyboard sucks. You should be able to get a link that will allow you do the review from a computer.
Oh, and in Spanish translation, Dilbert becomes Gilberto.
November 17, 2023
I haven’t read a Dilbert collection yet that I didn’t love, and I’ve read A LOT of Dilbert collections. I like this one because there weren’t a bunch of repeats from other collections —everything was new to me. Lots of LOL moments.
July 5, 2020
Great book.
Pure entertainment, I read it in a day today. Some of them are excruciatingly consistent like office hours, but I found myself laughing and grinning at the brilliance.
Pure entertainment, I read it in a day today. Some of them are excruciatingly consistent like office hours, but I found myself laughing and grinning at the brilliance.
October 24, 2020
Another excellent Dilbert.
Humerous and yet so true (sadly) of office life. Good that it stays topical and fresh as well. Onto the next one.
Humerous and yet so true (sadly) of office life. Good that it stays topical and fresh as well. Onto the next one.
September 20, 2022
A fun Dilbert read. Plenty of guest artists in this collection, which is always fun.
November 2, 2022
brutal
February 22, 2017
Scott Adams is a genius and possibly a based time traveler. Love all his stuff. A great man and really funny dude.
December 25, 2016
Up to the usual level -- but there are many "guest artist" strips, with a seriously ugly look...
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