The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
BIZ STONEThe 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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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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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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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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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