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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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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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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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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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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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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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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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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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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