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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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Belief Failing Faith Personal
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
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
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 was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Age Care Curious 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
This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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Ideas Impact Secretary Thinking
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
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
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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People Running Technology
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
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife

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