Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
BIZ STONEI think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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People first. Technology second.
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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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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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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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Constraint inspires creativity
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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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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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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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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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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When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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Embrace your constraints.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
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We 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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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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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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