Build a better life by stealing office supplies

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1. teddyhOct 2025
   Company without a strategy:

   [Phone rings]

   Employee thinks: “Oh-oh… What should I do?”

   Company with a strategy:

   Employee says on the phone: “We don’t do that”

   — Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's Big Book of Business, Scott Adams, 1991

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2. ghssdsOct 2024
   Build a better life by stealing office supplies, by Scott Adams.
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3. teddyhJun 2020
   “You will appear to be a visionary planner if you decentralize everything which is centralized and centralize everything which is decentralized.”

   — Dogbert, Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies (Dogbert’s Big Book of Business), Scott Adams, 1991

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4. ChrisMarshallNYMay 2020
   I think peer review is quite important.

   Note the word “peer,” though.

   I would not peer review papers on robotics or AI, as those are not my forté. I could review papers on some generalizations of software engineering or the Swift programming language.

   Editing is a different matter. My mother was a scientific editor, and absolutely brutal. She edited a book I wrote on writing software for a certain specialty of Web site, and it was quite humbling. She knew nothing at all about the technology, yet provided an immensely valuable service.

   The book is long past it’s “sell-by” date, yet stands as maybe the only “perfect” artifact of my life, thanks to her.

   Then there’s comment threads in venues like this one, which some might equate to “peer review.”

   There was an old Dilbert comic on Peer review. I don’t think it can be found online, but was in “Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies.”

   It was entitled “The Joy of Feedback,” and probably applies to comment threads.

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5. m_myersJan 2015
   I believe it's a page from Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies, not an actual strip.
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