You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
BIZ STONEWe 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 mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
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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 realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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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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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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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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