Scott Adams (1957-2026)

Scott Adams, the satirist-creator of Dilbert, died last week. I first encountered his strip as a child, far too young to appreciate its clairvoyance, but old enough to laugh at quips like: “According to the anonymous online employee survey, you don’t trust management. What’s up with that?” Only later, once I began my own career as an engineer, did the strip reveal itself as an unnervingly accurate parody of corporate life — by the time I finished my MBA, I was half-convinced Adams had been practicing some kind of sorcery.