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Biz Stone
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: March 10
Blogger
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Computer Scientist
Creative Director
San Francisco County
California
Christopher Isaac Stone
Isaac Biz Stone
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I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
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I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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Embrace your constraints.
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Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.
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I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.
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There are a lot of sources of information out there, so why don't you curate for yourself a list, like a real timeline of information, like the New York Times, or JetBlue, or your friends, or this comedian, or this guy who pretends to be a cat, or whatever it is, whatever entertains you, whatever you find useful.
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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.
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