In fact, it was my mother who challenged me not to allow one bad experience to become my defining moment.

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If I never moved on from the one bad experience in my life?

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But this latest bad experience changed my thought process from Apple tablets to what's wrong with the whole PC landscape and today's operating systems.

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Both eventually failed due to my lack of business experience, insufficient capital and the bad economy of the late eighties.

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Dido calls it "my bleakest song ever", written about "a really bad" experience that she couldn't "make sense of".

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Based on my experience with hundreds of such meetings, no one ever thinks this is a bad idea, but when following up afterward, we observe that it happens infrequently.

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In typical ARPG fashion, I found bad guys to fight and fought them with my powers, and for my troubles I received experience and loot.

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My next thought stems from a recent experience I had involving Dr. Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Pharma.

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