anecdote

Mr. Pierce, the author of two previous books on the history of animation and Disney studios, shows through his anecdotes how fluid and improvisational collaboration can be—and how much fun.

He whisks the reader from oceanic thermal vents through the rise of mammals to the emergence of human language, peppering the text with goofy drawings and personal anecdotes.

Some of the data Hammack collects are what’s known in the economics trade as soft data — anecdotes, stories, opinions and sentiment.

We’re hearing all of the anecdotes, not just in the tech sector, but in the financial sector and the industrial sector of how they are using AI.

“It’s easy to get carried away with a few negative anecdotes.”