Scott Adams, 1957-present

Scott Adams, Dilbert

Adams excels in writing satiric sketches of life in the corporate business setting. Here is a story about an incident in his life that exemplifies his sense of the ludicrous in corporate ideology:

Logitech CEO Pierluigi Zappacosta invited Adams to impersonate a management consultant, which he did wearing a wig and false mustache. He tricked Logitech managers into adopting a mission statement that Adams described as "so impossibly complicated that it has no real content whatsoever."

Virtue-signalling principle versus reality

The illusion of the power to write code to enforce morality

To do nothing = To be at one with everything

Ethics and strategy