Things a Little Bird Told Me
Confessions of the Creative Mind
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- USD 9.99
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- USD 9.99
Descripción editorial
Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career.
Things a Little Bird Told Me
From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positive and remarkably savvy co-founder of Twitter-the social media platform that singlehandedly changed the way the world works. Now, Biz tells fascinating, pivotal, and personal stories from his early life and his careers at Google and Twitter, sharing his knowledge about the nature and importance of ingenuity today. In Biz's world:
Opportunity can be manufactured
Great work comes from abandoning a linear way of thinking
Creativity never runs out
Asking questions is free
Empathy is core to personal and global success
In this book, Biz also addresses failure, the value of vulnerability, ambition, and corporate culture. Whether seeking behind-the-scenes stories, advice, or wisdom and principles from one of the most successful businessmen of the new century, Things a Little Bird Told Me will satisfy every reader.
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The way to succeed in business is to gamble your future, follow your bliss, and save the world, according to this effusive but callow memoir-cum-motivational manifesto by the co-founder of Twitter. Stone narrates a classic Silicon Valley romance: shoe-string startup with a crazy yet banal idea; explosive network growth; avalanche of wealth that leaves its recipient modest, , and abrim with grandiose theories about "human flocking." Unfortunately, his picture of Twitter aka "a triumph of humanity" is sketchy and idealized. We learn little about how the company makes money when it's not undermining tyrannies and giving to charity, and Stone's own role is vague: he brainstorms Twitter's bird logo and troubleshoots with irate customers, but his main job description seems to be "embodying and communicating the spirit of the thing" and "buil a moral compass and a righteous soul into the company." He distills his life experiences into self-help sermonettes that talk loudly but tread lightly. ("e willing to die to achieve your goals. Figuratively, of course.") Stone often writes with considerable self-deprecating charm his portrait of Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg as a humorless noodge is priceless but when he dilates on his philosophy of thrill-seeking entrepreneurship, one longs for a 140-character limit.
