Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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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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You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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