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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
Constraint inspires creativity
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Constraints Creativity Inspire
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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Breaking News People Thinking Twenties
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
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
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
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
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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Exactly Newspaper Shapes Stories Think Waiting
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 realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Ideas Renewable Resources Running
They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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Designed Director Guy PIcked Wanted
Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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Connection Experience Greatest Work
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
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
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Advantage Firsts Opportunity
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
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
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
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Book Computer Everyone Jacked Jumped Slipped
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Coworker Culture Empathetic
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 thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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