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.
BIZ STONEPositive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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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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What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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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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Embrace your constraints.
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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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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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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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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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