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Compare Prices for Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs - A Parody

Welcome to the mind, to the world of Fake Steve Jobs. Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: “Obviously we can?t literally put our employees? lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way.? Fake Steve the political hobnobber: “I can see why they keep Nancy Pelosi under wraps. Wacky as a dime watch.? Fake Steve quoting friend/musician/philosopher Bono on road etiquette: “Tink about dat next toim yer cuttin off some bloke and you don?t know who it is, right? Could be Jay-sus. Or Boutros Boutros-Ghali or sumfin.? And on, yes, himself: “Geniuses have feelings, too.? In the tradition of Thank You for Smoking and in the spirit of The Onion, Options is a novelistic sendup and takedown of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C., as viewed by a central character who exists, to his immense self-satisfaction, at the crossroads of all three worlds: “It?s like in one of those movies where a guy realizes he?s got telekinetic powers and it?s just too bad if he doesn?t want them, he?s got them. Likewise, I have this gift. It?s who I am.?