अब मुझ में से नहीं निकलती 

कविता 

कढ़ाई 

या मधुबनी 

कूचियाँ सूख गईं 

धागे उपेक्षित 

कलम ने 

अकेलेपन से आत्महत्या कर ली 

(हम बरसी में नहीं गए ) 

अब मुझ से निकलते हैं 

सफेद, बंजर बादल 

कोयले की राख 

और विफल टोटके 

An Obit to Scott Adams and Dilbert

Humour can howl what literature fears to whisper. 

The founder of Dilbert - Scott Adams, is dead. 

I first saw his work in the Economic Times. And LOLed. 

Unlike the cartoon strips we grew up reading - Dennis, Blondie, Archie, etc., this strip had office as the setting. Like Calvin, it delivered deep truth bombs in LOL doses. The only other strip office strip was Glasbergen, but they were two different categories. Dilbert was Dilbert. Glasbergen is Glasbergen. 

He made his strips free to access from his blog. If you signed up, you got the daily Dilbert for free in your inbox. I used that for quite some time. 

Over the years, I have used his strips EXTENSIVELY - to voice a shared pain, to drive home a point, to teach, but mostly, to laugh with self. To see a real side of the office existence - The more things change, the more they remain the same. 

Sharing some of the best Dilbert strips. 

The REAL reason American companies don't last 100 years: 

The Peter Principle in Action: 

On Personal Time Off: 

On Risk Management: 

Or running Retrospectives: 

On Root Cause Analysis: 

On Testing and project planning: 

The Whys and the That's Why

 I LOVE this shot - "Why? Why? Why?" .."Oh, that's why!"

I can't remember how many times this has been used to explain things like "Grand Plan", "Strategy" etc.

But here's the thing - All those Whys? lead to a "That's Why". Thats not how it happens irl.

Good for Sheldon that his Whys get a "That's Why".

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o56qL2t4swA

Want to know 

how this story ends? 

It ends 

the same way that 

all my stories have ended - 

Everyone else is happy.