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I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.

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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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Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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Hate Passionate People Product Scenario
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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Break Couple Days Hyperconnected
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Age Care Curious Writing
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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Ideas Impact Secretary Thinking
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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Belief Failing Faith Personal
It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Brave Chance People Regimes Stars Take
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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Exactly Newspaper Shapes Stories Think Waiting
Constraint inspires creativity
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Constraints Creativity Inspire
I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
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Network Social Thinking
I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
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Meaningful Over Phone Social Thinking

I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.

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I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.

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