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The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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Air iPhone Macbook Scratched Two
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
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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Google Place Thought Work
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
Constraint inspires creativity
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Constraints Creativity Inspire
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Better Over You Simple
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
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
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

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