The very sad news is breaking this morning that Scott Adams, the brilliant cartoonist who drew the comic strip Dilbert for several decades, as passed away at age 68 following a battle with cancer.

I very much admired Adams.  His intellect was formidable: maybe too much for some people to comprehend, given how the past few years went.  But I think most of us readily understood where he was coming from.  He was absolutely one of the most – if not THE most – brilliant thinkers to be a part of modern pop culture.

Several of his Dilbert books are in my personal library.  Indeed, for a long time his strip was one of the very first things I opened the newspaper to.  So many of Adams’s cartoons that I could say that I love.  But this one in particular is near and dear to my heart.  From ...