I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
BIZ STONEI 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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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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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We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
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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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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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A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
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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 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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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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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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