Things a Little Bird Told Me: Creative Secrets from the Co-Founder of Twitter

Who knew @Biz was such an incredible writer! This book is simply delicious. A behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of start-ups and Twitter. You get a first hand account of the fail whale, the lean times, and the meeting with Zuckerberg offering to buy Twitter. But most importantly, this is a book about creativity and mad genius. It's brilliant and it will supercharge your own creativity. When you finish it, you'll be smiling.

If you read "Hatching Twitter" and you use Twitter a lot (like me), then you'll like Biz Stone's insights on how Twitter was built and his advice on building a business of your own. His memories of how Twitter was born are definitely different than Nick Bilton, who wrote "Hatching Twitter" (which was also a quick read and a great book), but Stone gives some great, positive advice on the lessons that he learned from the days when he started to run his own blog, then got hired by Google, then went off to work at Odeo, then to Twitter, and now to Jelly. It's a positive, happy look back at his way to success. I give him credit for being so happy about all of the tough times that he went through while becoming successful. You only have one life, so you might as well be happy, believe in yourself and enjoy the ride.

Twitter aside, I think the one thing that really resonated with me about Biz in writing the book is he has a lot of humility and also a lot of empathy to his family, his colleagues, and even to his users. This is sometimes really missing from the corporate/tech world.For this reason alone, I think this book was so refreshing and authentic to read. Granted if you are someone looking to start a company, you might not have the success that Twitter had, but I think still there are a lot of lessons from the book that don't just relate to starting a company but just to life and also on how important is to be good to those around you.Do buy this book, it is great to read and I took away a lot from it. I wish him great success with Jelly.

The narrative is very clear and easy to follow from the author’s perspective. Small but very significant details through his personal and professional career made a strong point to understand how he acted the way he did.It’s a book not focused on technology but focused on the soft side of the entrepreneur and his road to a huge success

Biz and I are very similar. A lot of things he experienced in life, I also experienced. It was very refreshing to read his perspectives on business and the humanity that goes into a business.Well done.

Wow a great book on so many level. Biz is so personal in his writing style you feel like he is your friend after reading "Things a Little Bird Told Me." Biz's life story of his journey to business success & global altruism is touching, very real, and so easy to relate to in many ways for your own life path. I love his honesty, integrity, & personal philosophy on being a nice person in life. Biz proves one person can make a big difference in this world but also demonstrates the power of people working together for the greater good. Wishing Biz much success with his new adventure Jelly!

For me, this book helped clarify what I want out of my life. Humanize technology, embody and communicate a positive culture, manufacture opportunity, harness creativity, emotionally engage, serve the customer, and do great things. I love when he says his story is about "making something out of nothing, about merging your abilities with your ambitions, and about what you learn when you look at the work through a lens of infinite possibility."

Great story! Written in easy to access (ie high school level) prose. Biz tells his life story, not just the Twitter story. Candid, engaging, funny and honest. Very important for someone interested in the technology industry but does not have strong technical skills. While I'm sure Biz has more than he lets on, his role was to humanize the great technology that the engineers were producing. A critical piece of the puzzle. Highly recommend.

A good memoir, tells a good story, but not gripping and the language is quite simplistic, accessible maybe. Paints a good perspective of the Twitter story.

Certainly not a blueprint but Inspires some good thoughts and actions to make me just a little more reckless and not to play safe. The world needs more people like this.

Great read!

So So

Current favorite.