I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
BIZ STONEThey picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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.
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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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I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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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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You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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Embrace your constraints.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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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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