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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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Interesting Pedestal Way
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Ideas Have Confidence
I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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Communication Moving Real
We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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Around Cities Communicate Real Roaming
The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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Meditative Purposes Problem Purpose Running
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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Bird Ideas Moving
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
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
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 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
The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
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Basically Good Most People Simple Smart
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
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
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance 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
I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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Artist Entrepreneur Thinking
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
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
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 realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Ideas Renewable Resources Running

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