What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
BIZ STONEYou can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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People first. Technology second.
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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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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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