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I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.

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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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Network Social Thinking
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
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out
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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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Coworker Culture Empathetic
Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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Like Refreshing Running You
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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Asking Different Networking Thinking Update
You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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Break Couple Days Hyperconnected
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
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
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
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
It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Brave Chance People Regimes Stars Take
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

I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.

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I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.

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