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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
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
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
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 thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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Google Place Thought Work
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
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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Clip iPhone Mean People Watch
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
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
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
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment

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