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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
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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Clip iPhone Mean People Watch
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
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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Creativity Design Perfect
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
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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Network Social Thinking
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Coworker Culture Empathetic
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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Hate Passionate People Product Scenario
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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Designed Director Guy PIcked Wanted
Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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Answers Mind Open
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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Exactly Newspaper Shapes Stories Think Waiting
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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Ideas Mean Thinking
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People

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