Each participant read short anecdotes about the fortunes or misfortunes of other study participants, and rated how good or bad the anecdotes made them feel.
But Mr. Isaacson, who worked with Mr. Jobs on the book for two and a half years, said that it was not fair to Mr. Jobs, or the book, to cherry-pick the Bad Steve anecdotes.
When they devise a musical from bad job anecdotes proffered by the audience, each song is performed in the style of a different rapper, from Jay-Z (now working in waste management in Cheshire) to a vocoder-heavy Kanye West.
I could already tell I'm going to bring a lot of light to her life with the bad dad anecdotes I plan on dropping in the coming weeks, as her eyes lit up with perverse glee during my retelling of the occasion in which he carved the word "FUCK" into the top of a car that he decided had parked too close to his Volvo.
Out of that single thread he weaves a whole cloth using unsubstantiated anecdotes, bad math and worse logic, with a touch of fabrication thrown in for good measure--quoting Nina Shea, another former USCIRF Commissioner, who boldly states that there is "de facto discrimination and a gross injustice" being committed [by the US] against Syrian Christians. .
But Easington is not just a museum, nor a collection of miserable anecdotes and bad statistics.
Similarly, learn from anecdotes of bad management you've seen and strive to be better.
Debates over whether Google is too powerful have traditionally been limited to anecdotes and bad feelings, but one anti-Google, Yelp-backed coalition known as Focus on the User has been trying to prove that case with data: It has presented European regulators with side-by-side tests that compare how likely users are to click on Google's local search results without any goosing by the company.
"There is, of course, no shortage of anecdotes regarding bad doctors and unscrupulous drug-marketing practices," he acknowledged.
An hour on the phone with him is worth three decades of anecdotes about bad casting decisions, tiffs with bullheaded studio executives, celebrity egos and success that's never guaranteed from one project to the next.
