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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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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
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Contains Information Links News Simple
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
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
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 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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Creativity Running Use
I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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Distribute Mean Say Sound
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
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
Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Certain Emotional Guaranteed Success
I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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College Environment Needs Psychological
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
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
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
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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Meaningful Over Phone Social Thinking
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People

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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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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