Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-07-13
Books mentioned on Part Two: How The Dilbert Guy Lost His Mind
Robert is joined again by cartoonist Randy Milholland to continue to discuss Scott Adams. See omnystudio.
Robert Evans discussed How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, The confidence game by Maria Konnikova, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Peter Principle by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and others, The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams, The Dilbert future by Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams, God's debris by Scott Adams, and The religion war by Scott Adams.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a classic self-help manual focused on interpersonal communication, relationship building, and effective social influence.
Discussed“you've all like most people you may not recognize his name but everyone's heard of this guy's book he's the guy who wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People”
Where to get it
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The confidence game
The Confidence Game by Maria Konnikova explores the psychology of con artists and why intelligent people repeatedly fall for scams and manipulation.
Discussed“and Maria is the author of a book on cons and conman called The Confidence Game and here's Maria talking about Dale”
Where to get it
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The Art of War
The Art of War by Sun Tzu is an ancient military treatise offering timeless strategic principles on leadership, outmaneuvering adversaries, and conflict resolution.
Discussed“and a lot of Dale's advice is kind of stuff again it's not like necessarily all that problematic and in fact it's kind of like The Art of War and that if you like read it today because some of the things he wrote about have been so like spread so widely you'll be really bored it'll seem it's like”
Where to get it
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The Peter Principle
The Peter Principle by Dr.
Discussed“in 1969 Lawrence co-wrote a book called the Peter Principle the nut of the argument he made in the book was this quote”
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The Dilbert Principle
The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams is a satirical management book that explores workplace absurdity and the Peter Principle.
Discussed“in 1996 Justice Dilbert was blowing up he decided to put his own spin on the Peter Principle in his first text-based book so this is not like a book of cartoons this is like a non-fiction book The Dilbert principle the delivery that was the book”
Where to get it
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The Dilbert future
Discussed“the next year he publishes the Dilbert future which of course I also read as a small child the subtitle of the book was thriving on stupidity in the 21st century”
Where to get it
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams is a self-improvement and business book that advocates for building a diverse talent stack and focusing on repeatable systems rather than rigid long-term goals.
Discussed“in 2013 he writes a book called How to fail at almost everything and still win big and it's another it's him kind of pretending to be humble where he's like I was bad at all of this stuff and I still got super successful”
Where to get it
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God's debris
God's Debris by Scott Adams is a philosophical fiction novella structured as a pseudo-socratic dialogue exploring deep questions about religion, human motivation, and the nature of God.
Discussed“one is called the religion war and one is called God's debris have you read these books”
Where to get it
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The religion war
The Religion War by Scott Adams is a speculative fiction novel that serves as a sequel to the author's earlier philosophical work, God's Debris, exploring themes of geopolitics and religious conflict through a futuristic lens.
Discussed“one is called the religion war and one is called God's debris have you read these books”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“or on the other end of the show great cartoonist Alan Moore wrote a book called Jerusalem and I'm going to be honest I haven't read it”
“I have a book called After the Revolution you can find it anywhere you find books like type it whatever wherever you get your books type it in”