About The Author
Christopher 'Biz' Stone is an American entrepreneur, one of the inventors and funders of Twitter, the social networking service whose 200 million active users send an average of 400 million tweets every day. He also helped to create and launch internetb sites Xanga, Odeo and Blogger, the last fo whcih hosts his own blog. He and his wife founded the Biz and Livia Stone Foundation, which supports education and conservation in California.
He has pubished two books about bloggging, Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (2002) and Who Let The Blogs Out? (2004).
His latest book is Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind, an illuminating life story with a unique gift of perspective to anyone dreaming of taking risks, changing their lives and changing the world.
As the Guest Author opening the Business Department in our new Charing Cross Road flagship store, Biz Stone shares some of his favourite business titles with us.
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Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner
This highlighted the value of looking at one industry to get perspective on another.
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Steven Johnson
Certain aspects of nature are alarmingly similar to patterns of behavior on the type of large scale systems I design and build - 'Emergence' helped me understand many similarities between the natural world and the online world.
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Steven Johnson
A fascinating introduction to the world of neuroscience from a pop culture perspective.
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Daniel H. Pink
Daniel H Pink's book validated my approach to work and life in general - that the future belongs to creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers.
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Steven Johnson
A fresh perspective on the importance of timing, collaboration, and the right setting for ideas - challenging the time honored 'Eureka!' moment of the lone inventor.
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Malcolm Gladwell
This book about how we think without thinking introduced me to the fascinating concept of the art of 'thin-slicing' - filtering a few key elements out of a lot of noise.
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Stephen T. Johnson
I love the dramatic historical approach exploring and upsetting some fundamental assumptions about innovation and the way new ideas emerge and spread.
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Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell's book illuminated in a very succinct way, the similarities between physical society and the large scale virtual societies that I build.
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Steven Johnson
Besides mapping the ways our connected society will be both different and better, 'Future Perfect' makes a timely and aspirational case that progress is still possible.
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