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They 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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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
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
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
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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Ideas Mean Writing
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
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
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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Meditative Purposes Problem Purpose Running
The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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Bird Ideas Moving
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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Communication Moving Real
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
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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Connection Experience Greatest Work
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship

They 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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